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Definition of Stalagmite
1. Noun. A cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave.
Definition of Stalagmite
1. n. A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.
Definition of Stalagmite
1. Noun. (geology) A mineral deposit of calcium carbonate, in shapes similar to icicles, that lie on the ground of a cave. ¹
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Definition of Stalagmite
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Medical Definition of Stalagmite
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Literary usage of Stalagmite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fieldiana by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum, Field Columbian Museum (1895)
"If it be considered further that variations in the form of a stalagmite may result
from variations in the rate of evaporation and content of carbonate of ..."
2. Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early by William Boyd Dawkins (1874)
"Observations on the Rate at which stalagmite is being accumulated in the Ingleborough
Cave. Proceed. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Manch. April 1873. ..."
3. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1862)
"2, there was a hillock of angular blocks, etc. covered by stalagmite, and upon this
... stalagmite ..... 0 c. Angular blocks .... Ü ft. in. 6 4 2 8 9 x. ..."
4. Outlines of Mineralogy by John Kidd (1809)
"... texture: the branches are often of a silky lustre externally, owing to an
aggregation of very minute crystals, superficially investing them, stalagmite. ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1876)
"(2) " The floor of this Cavern is laid out in well distinguished strata, one
deposit divided from the other and sealed up with a solid coating of stalagmite ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1905)
"In other places, as in the Elephant Hall, the stalagmite was unbroken ; and on its
... A large mass of stalagmite of this sort lay over a skull of Deer, ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"The fabricators of these knives must have lived loug antecedently to the time
when the work of their h.inds was covered with stalagmite ; and contem- ..."
8. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"Some of these contain local deposits of stalagmite, and underneath it successive
layers of ashes, charcoal, and broken bones of the ordinary domestic ..."
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