stalagmite

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The findings come from 1,800-year record of the Asian monsoon preserved in a stalagmite from a Chinese cave.

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  1. noun A conical mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, built up on the floor of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.

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  • Gallagher himself calculated the approximate age of three hundred thousand years by figuring the rate of evaporation, the time it would take for a stalagmite of a certain size to form. —  Stanislaw Lem - The Invincible
  • Tying the end around a stalagmite, he rappelled until even with the lower opening. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • The third leaned against a stalagmite, looking bored. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • Bink winced-but as it turned out, the stalagmite was more of a problem to Crombie than to Chester. —  The Source of Magic
  • The henchman descended toward the stalagmite, butt first. —  The Color of Her Panties
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  1. New Latin stalagmītēs, a drop, from Greek stalagma, a drop, or stalagmos, dropping, both from stalassein, stalak-, to drip.

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  1. from French stalagmite, from Greek σταλαγμός, dropping or dripping, στάλαγμα, that which drops, from σταλάζειν, drop, let fall drop by drop: see stalactic.
 

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