stalagmite in English

noun
1
a mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water and often uniting with a stalactite.
Icicles, stalactites, stalagmites , lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but the rest of the nonbiotic Universe has other shapes.

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1. Stalagmite formation occurs only under certain pH conditions within the cavern.

2. The Cretan stone that was used at the time included steatite, stalagmite, alabaster, schist, and serpentine.

3. Caverne Patate, in the island's southwestern corner, is an impressive cave system with a few stalagmite and stalactite formations

4. The uninterrupted growth of the stalagmite Attests to the constant availability of rainfall and vegetated soils, while its δ 13 C–δ 18 O palaeoclimate proxies demonstrate that Apulia was not

5. Bashful, a 1917 American film; Bashful (character), a character from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Bashful elephant, a stalagmite in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, US; Bashful Peak, a mountain in Alaska, US; Boleslaus the Bashful (1226–1279), a Polish prince; Bashful (Pac-Man), one of the ghosts in the arcade game Pac-Man (original name Kimagure (気まぐれ))