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- noun Stone formation made up of
calcite and other minerals that build up incave pools.
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And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders.
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Water dripped from stalactites into shallow rimstone pools.
The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
hernesheir commented on the word rimstone
(n): A common variety of speleothem, which is calcite deposited by pooled water into a series of small rims or dams, usually on a cave floor.
January 15, 2009