#speleothems

[spiritheyregone]

"Lily pad room" at Onondaga Cave State Park, Missouri. (Flickr)

[bethanythebogwitch]

Went to Meramec Caverns yesterday

Replica of Jesse James and his brother, who hid out in the cavern after they robbed a train car

This is one side of Onyx Mountain, the 3rd biggest stalagmite in the world. It's millions of years old and still growing. It got so big it hit the ceiling and started growing out instead of up

This is the wine table, one of the rarest types of cave formations in the world

The tour does a light show using this formation as the screen

[wuzhere75]

Images from Wikipedia I am obsessed with part 5: SPELEOTHEMS! SPELEOTHEMS! SPELEOTHEMS!

[medeaft]

Sinister cave 2023 Acrylic on paper

This is a commission I much enjoyed working on; the client was kind enough to give me permission to post it.

Now, having dedicated an entire picture to painting speleothems, I can see that I like painting them even more than I thought.

[crumb]

Whipple Cave, Nevada (1972)

[my-name-is-not-victoria]

Nov 4, 2023

Unexpectedly, I got to do some scrambling around underground today! Wasn't a great big cave, but it had some very decorated little nooks and crannies.

[kino-free-time]

Speleothems in Lehman Cave

Lehman Cave, near the Nevada-Utah border, is not a large cave but it does have some spectacular formations (speleothems). Here we see a vareity of flowstone, columns and stalactites. Speleothems form over long times when calcite (and rarely other minerals) precipitate from dripping or flowing groundwater.

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[mosswolf]

speleoTHEM? all this liberal nonsense. back in MY day it was speleoHIM!!!