stalactite

Medieval artisans crafted some Alhambra ceilings to look like a cave’s stalactites, then gilded them with a layer of tinfoil topped by a gold-and-silver alloy.

With a bedrock of sandstone and shale, two minerals less water soluble than limestone, the area didn’t lend itself to the familiar stalactites and stalagmites of other subterranean tunnels.

Replies stack downward, leading in some cases to long, stalactite-like structures.

In this specimen the tubular cavity of the stalactite is still open.

I halted on my way to visit the curious and wonderful stalactite caverns of Adelsberg; they are like underground cathedrals.

The storeman seizes the head of one bird, wrenches hard, and off it breaks as brittle as a stalactite.

The outermost cave is 70 ft. in height and 200 in length, with massive pillars of stalactite reaching from roof to floor.

Slow water fell drop by drop from the point of the stalactite upon the point of the stalagmite.