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Stalagmite

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stalagmite: see stalactite and stalagmite stalactite and stalagmite , mineral forms often found in caves; sometimes collectively called dripstone. A stalactite is an icicle-shaped mass of calcite attached to the roof of a limestone cavern.
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stalagmite
a cylindrical mass of calcium carbonate projecting upwards from the floor of a limestone cave: formed by precipitation from continually dripping water
stalagmite [stə′lag‚mīt]
(geology)
A conical speleothem formed upward from the floor of a cave by the action of dripping water; usually composed of calcium carbonate.
Stalagmite 

a sinter-drip, usually limestone formation that is columnar or conical in shape and rises from the floor of caves and other underground karst caverns. Stalagmites occur as the result of precipitation of calcium carbonate when the carbon dioxide is eliminated from the carbonate-saturated water dripping from above. Sometimes salt and other types of stalagmites are formed as a result of evaporation.
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This shortly brought them to a be- witching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fan- tastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
Sometimes the stalagmites took strange forms, presumably where the dropping of the water had not always been on the same spot.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
 
 
 
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