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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A layered deposit of calcium carbonate on rock where water has flowed or dripped, as on the walls of a cave.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geology A layered deposit of calcite formed by water flowing down the walls, and along the floor of a cave.

Examples

  • “Another guide also turned off the lights in another room to show visitors the dim phosphorescense from a "flowstone" formation.”

    The Altoona Mirror

  • “Portions were rocky with slides or jacketed in flowstone.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “Suspended in the flowstone beneath her feet, a dozen dead hadals seemed ready to rise up and break free.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “She went to the creature suspended in flowstone, the mineral seepage.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “You could see them underfoot, suspended in the flowstone, hundreds, no, thousands of them.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “Clemens approached a tall, translucent flange of flowstone.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “For a moment, he thought his buddy in the flowstone had come back to life and broken free.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “They walked across the flowstone, now and then peering down through the mineral lens at the plague victims.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “Overrun with flowstone and alabaster talus and thick vines, it looked like a forest without the trees.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

  • “The lower battlements were smothered with flowstone.”

    Simon & Schuster: Deeper

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  • hernesheir (n): A common variety of speleothem, which is deposited calcite covering a surface in a smooth, even, often massive layer. Jan 15, 2009

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