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definition
A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lie on the ground of a cave.
Examples of stalagmite in a Sentence
The Empress Column is a stalagmite 35 ft.
Above this and below the stalagmite there is in one part of the cave a black band from 2 to 6 in.
Each stalactite, stalagmite and pilaster was measured, numbered, and removed in sections.
Climbing down from the big stalagmite was a far stickier proposition than getting to the top.
A chamber to the east of the hall contains a massive stalagmite boss and some impressive gour pools.
One human cranium which was embedded in a thick stalagmite deposit at the side of the chamber was left in situ.
Some were still pools or active streamway, while others were passages containing stalagmite.
Now climb between the curtains on the right and the large stalagmite on the left which need not and MUST NOT be touched.
A stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite.
The shingle therefore stood some feet higher than it does now, and it is supposed that a shock or jar, such as that of an earthquake, broke up the stalagmite, and the pebbles and sand composing the shingle sunk deeper into the fissures in the limestone.
At a later period the fall of angular fragments at the entrance finally closed the cave, and it ceased to be accessible except to a few burrowing animals, whose remains are found above the second and newer stalagmite floor.
Both these cave systems contain superb examples of stalagmite and stalactite development.
The first drops down a fissure in the floor, which leads down to a stalagmite boss partway along the hand traverse.
Examination of the side of the level revealed a stalagmite formation of iron sulfide.
From there, the way opens into a large passage with several stalagmite columns in the floor.
A small stalagmite flow at the upper end of the Second Chamber has been marked with cold chisel edge.
A stalagmite floor there is 36 inches thick; it rests on coarse fill burying an earlier stalagmite.
The traces of human occupation are pieces of charcoal, flints, moccasin tracks and a single skeleton embedded in stalagmite in one of the chasms, estimated, from the present rate of stalagmitic growth, to have lain where found for not more than five hundred years.
About the same time P. C. Schmerling of Liege was exploring the ossiferous caverns of the valley of the Meuse, and satisfied himself that the men whose bones he found beneath the stalagmite floors, together with bones cut and flints shaped by human workmanship, had inhabited this Belgian district at the same time with the cave-bear and several other extinct animals whose bones were imbedded with them (Recherches sur les ossements fossiles decouverts dans les cavernes de la province de Liege (Liege, 1833-1834)).