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  • noun Plural form of speleothem.

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  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Peak Oil News 2010

  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scientific American: 2010

  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Peak Oil News 2010

  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Peak Oil News 2010

  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Scientific American: 2010

  • Plus, these caves have a series of formations, known as speleothems, like stalagmites, scattered at various levels, both above and below present-day sea level, thereby offering a record in the carbonate crust left on them by the lapping waters of sea level over time.

    Peak Oil News 2010

  • • Stalactite curtains, or "speleothems," that contain a record of past sea level and climate conditions locked in their structures.

    USATODAY.com News - Top Stories 2010

  • Athanasius Kircher wrote about these speleothems—stalactites and stalagmites—in his Mundus Subterraneus, strange subterranean forms made from water seeping through bedrock.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Athanasius Kircher wrote about these speleothems—stalactites and stalagmites—in his Mundus Subterraneus, strange subterranean forms made from water seeping through bedrock.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • These speleothems originated by water condensation and very slow seepage from wall fractures.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

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