There are also small stalactites, and unusual stalagmites that have the appearance of barrels, all of which are coated in an opaque watery liquid known as moonmilk.
Lavacicles are geological formations resembling small round-tipped stalactites that are found in lava tubes, the name comes from their resemblance to icicles.
A small stalactite had begun in a concavity in the ceiling.
On the sides of the second room there are draperies, small stalactites and young stalagmites.
That vault, marked only by a few small stalactites and spider-web cracks, was sixty feet high at the apex and curved to thirty feet where it met the walls.
Even more striking were the inverse structures, the thirty smaller stalactites of House Baenre.
Snottites are colonies of single-celled extremophilic bacteria which hang from the walls and ceilings of caves and are similar to small stalactites, but have the consistency of snot.
On the old Civil War battery, the guardrails have rusted and small stalactites hang from the ceilings.
The ceiling was 20 feet high and dotted with small stalactites, slender formations much like icicles in shape.
Structural steel within the concrete began to rust causing expansion of the concrete, and in some sections, small stalactites began to grow off ledges.
