What is a type of formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves called?

A stalactite is a type of formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or manmade structures such as bridges and mines. Any material that is soluble, can be deposited as a colloid, or is in suspension, or is capable of being melted, may form a stalactite. Stalactites may be composed of lava, minerals, mud, peat, pitch, sand, sinter, and amberat (crystallized urine of pack rats).

A stalactite is not necessarily a speleothem, though speleothems are the most common form of stalactite because of the abundance of limestone caves.

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David Roy

Or, one's got a C for ceiling and one's got a G for ground.

Joy Holbrook

Probably 60 years or more ago, I read a joke in the Readers Digest regarding this. The joke said to imagine a man wearing trousers, standing on an ants’ nest. The ants would run up his legs. Therefore, the mites go up and the tights come down.

Richard Ives

Tights come down!

Rik Speybrouck

in french they say mites comes from monter (climb) and tites comes from tomber (fall)

Treffer 1

Joy Holbrook, Excellent!😂👍

Player

Howard Groopman, it was

David Stokes

From the ceiling - it hangs on "tite", stalagmites on the other hand grow from the floor, and "mite" reach the ceiling one day

Joan Schmidt

The tights (tites) go down, and the mites go up is the way i learned.

Satish Chandran

Andaman islands have One such a cave.

Howard Groopman

Stalagmite should have been one of the choices to make it tougher.

david dunbar

Many a quote to discern the differences between the two

girl pn

double chance helped

Mr.LaFaye

Joy Holbrook, Good one.

Donna Murnane

David Roy, Exactly the way I learned it at school.

tbear

Joy Holbrook, 😂

Robyn Knight

As the mites go up, the tites come down!

Jennifer Dyster

Was a caver for 15 years so I had to get this one correct. Cavex South Australian group exploring caves at Naracoorte Penola Cuurramulka and the Flinders Ranges.