flow-stones

flow·stone

[floh-stohn]
noun Petrology.
a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3 , left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave.
Compare dripstone.


Origin:
1920–25, Amer.; flow + stone

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