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rimstone

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rimstone [′rim‚stōn]
(geology)
A calcium-containing deposit ringing an overflowing basin such as a hot spring.


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The cave decorations consist of stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, drapery, rimstone pools, flowstone, helictites, soda straws, and other unusual crystal formations.
The Celtic references begin in The Road on the first page in a dream the father has about a creature "who raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead and sightless as the eggs of spiders" (3-4).
Those bones found below the water level had been placed behind formations called rimstone dams, which are natural retaining walls formed around pools of still water.
 
 
 
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