Fortunately, at that moment a drop from a high-up stalactite landed in the waiting pool beneath, making a loud splash as it landed. |
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Also called ribbon stalactite, cave bacon forms when water flows through a crack in a slanting ceiling. |
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Even as he watched, a droplet of water dripped heavily down from a stalactite far overhead, landing in the pond with fat, lazy ripples. |
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A more satisfactory ending for the character might have been impalement from giant stalactite. |
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The decoration resembles a stalactite and consists of three-dimensional polygons, some with plane surfaces, and some with curved surfaces. |
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The beautiful stalactite and stalagmite formations in the cave are a sight one would seldom get to see in a lifetime. |
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Known as the Siddha Caves, it has stalactite and stalagmite formations and is yet to be fully explored. |
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There's no corner of this grotto without some form of stalactite or stalagmite. |
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Discovered in 1959, it is among the most beautiful caves in Europe due to its stalactite and stalagmite formations. |
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Stalactites have a central canal that carries water from the feeder joint to the stalactite tip. |
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The shape of the ceiling, with its central stalactite, is the result of this arrangement. |
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When a stalactite or stalagmite is deposited it contains a large amount of uranium and no thorium because of differences in the chemical behaviour of these elements. |
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Then came a warmer period between glaciations, and the stalactite grew. |
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Not every stalactite has a complementary stalagmite, and many of the latter may have no stalactite above them. |
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The caves were formed by the dissolution of limestone by water, which also produced striking stalactite and stalagmite rock formations. |
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The tour of its interior is approximately one and a half kilometres long and on it you can observe lovely stalactite and stalagmite formations. |
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A visit to the Höllgrotten, a stalagmite and stalactite cave complex in wild, romantic Lorzentobel is well worthwhile. |
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Sne¸na Jama on Mt Raduha is unique in that it's Slovenia's highest lying tourist cave, full of ice stalactite formations. |
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Flowers blooming from an icy stalactite? Unusual. |
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Visit the well-known stalactite caves of Han. |
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Visiting a stalactite cave last summer, one of us made a strange observation: Every time a drop fell down from the top it seemed as if it would flash at a certain height. |
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Visit the stalactite caves and the underground rivers of Baume-en-Arbois. |
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The stalactite caves and underground rivers of Baume-en-Arbois are fascinating and the city of Dole is a lovely place in which to spend some time. |
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The stalactite work, which is so marked a feature of later Islāmic architecture, is, in essence, merely a decorative development of a combination of niche squinch forms. |
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Simple and creative details, such as a chain down spout which takes on the form of a stalactite under winter's frost, contribute to creating a lively and poetic universe which evolves throughout the seasons. |
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A hand-blown glass stalactite hanging on a simple nail in the wall. |
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A stalactite hangs like an icicle from the ceiling or sides of a cavern. |
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Granite and serpentine rocks predominate, but the shores of Amboina Bay are of chalk and contain stalactite caves. |
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The stalagmite and stalactite are the two main subsurface features in a Carboniferous Limestone area. |
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Over thousands of years a stalactite forms from the ceiling as the water continues to drip. |
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A prominent architectural feature of the building is the transition zone of the dome composed of arched niches, which later developed, in the Ayyubid period, into the muqarnas or stalactite decoration. |
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Carved on a stalactite in a high marine cave that opens to the Caribbean Sea, these ideograms are associated to the Taino culture. |
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The western section, a kind of nave, is a fine example of a gavit, a dark and bare chamber with stalactite carvings in the vault that served as a burial-place-cum-assembly-hall, a space for worldly business. |
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Your guide will explain how the cave was formed and the extraordinary processes necessary for the build-up of the amazing stalagmite and stalactite formations. |
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A stone pillar is formed when a stalagmite and stalactite meet. |
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