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What is a stalagnate?
There is no term "stalagnate" in geology or any other field. It may be a misspelling of "stalagmite," which is a mineral deposit that rises from the floor of a cave due to dripping water containing minerals such as calcium carbonate.
How does a dripstone column form?
A dripstone column forms when mineral-rich water drips from a cave ceiling and accumulates on the cave floor, creating a stalagmite. Over time, as more dripping water flows down the stalactite and onto the stalagmite, they join together to form a column.
A moraine is a cone-shaped deposit of calcite that builds up on the floor of a cave?
Actually, a moraine is a ridge of sediment deposited by a glacier as it moves and melts. It is typically found at the edge or front of a glacier and is made up of a mixture of rock, soil, and debris that the glacier picks up and carries along.
Ground water erosion can result in the formation of stalactite and stalagmite in caves?
Groundwater erosion occurs when water seeps through the cracks in cave ceilings, carrying dissolved minerals. As the water drips from the cave ceiling, the mineral deposits are left behind, eventually forming stalactites. Similarly, when the water drops hit the cave floor, they deposit minerals there as well, forming stalagmites. Over time, these formations grow towards each other, eventually forming columns.
How do groundwater deposits floor of limestone cave?
The ground-water is a solution of calcium carbonate it has dissolved from the limestone above the cave. The mineral is subsequently precipitated as deposits of calcite in the cave: stalatcties & stalagmites, and flowstone on the floor and walls.
What type of deposit forms under a roof of a cave?
This type of deposit is called a stalactite. Stalactites are made up of calcium deposits from the runoff water coming into the cave.
What is a deposit of calcite on a cave floor?
A deposit of calcite on a cave floor is known as cave popcorn or cave coral. It forms when water containing dissolved calcium carbonate drips or seeps into a cave and then evaporates, leaving behind calcite deposits in the form of popcorn-like or coral-like formations.
Deposit of calcite on a cave floor?
Flowstone. Also if covering a wall or boulder-pile.
A moraine is a cone shaped deposit of calcite that builds up on the floor of a cave?
False
What deposit is formed at a roof of a cave?
Stalactites are found hanging from the roof of a cave, as opposed to stalagmites, which grow up from the floor. Remembering the difference is easy - stalactites are "tite" to the ceiling!
What is it called when a cone shaped deposit that rises from the floor of a cave?
That's called a stalagmite. A similar object descending from the roof of a cave = is a stalactite.
What is the term for a cone shaped deposit of calcite that builds up on the floor of a cave?
False is is called a stalagmite
What is a stalctite?
A Stalactite is growth of precipitated calcite downwards from a cave roof below the joint through which its feed solution emerges. The corresponding floor formation is a Stalagmite.
A deposit that hanges down from the roof of a cave?
This is called a "Stalactite"
What is a stalagnate?
There is no term "stalagnate" in geology or any other field. It may be a misspelling of "stalagmite," which is a mineral deposit that rises from the floor of a cave due to dripping water containing minerals such as calcium carbonate.
What is a pendant of calcium carbonate which hangs from the roof of a limestone cave called?
A calcite stalactite.
Is it true that stalagmites are narrower than stalactites?
Usually yes: its formative calcite solution is concentrated on the tip of a stalactite but spreads out on impact with the cave floor or the top of the stalagmite.
