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• n  a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave

• The idea came to him on a trip through Virginia's Shenandoah Caverns when his guide produced a beautiful, clanking tone by striking a stalactite across the middle.
• The ineffable Bea seems to take Prokofiev's fable with what Max Beerbohm called "a stalactite of salt.
• Last week his bobbing mobile The Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum .

News & Articles

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• Attractions in Ireland's Shannon Region
  Formed by nature over millions of years, both caves penetrate deep into the Burren mountainside,and each one has unique characteristics. Doolin Cave is home to a giant stalactite.
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central