Over millennia, this builds up within weird cave structures known as speleothems, which protrude from every surface where water flows, including stalagmites on the cave floor and stalactites on ...

Stalagmites that formed in caves hundreds of thousands of years ago preserve a record of how fires behaved the last time Earth’s temperatures were as high as they are today. New Scientist ...

Famous for its stalactites, rare geological formations and cures for asthma, Ballıca Cave in Turkey's northern Anatolian ...

Where a stalagmite is fed by a substantial amount of long-lived stored water, candlestick-shaped stalagmites may result: this stored water means that these stalagmites may have a damped influence ...