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- A helictite is a speleothem (cave-formed mineral) found in a limestone cave that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth...
- management plans both for caves and for broader karst parks. ASF publishes Helictite: Journal of Australasian Speleological Research. One of only four or five...
- cylindrical shape rather than the usual more conical shape of stalactites Helictites are stalactites that have a central canal with twig-like or spiral projections...
- Calcite rafts Cave pearl Cave popcorn Dogtooth spar Flowstone Frostwork Helictite Moonmilk Rimstone Shelfstone Snottite Soda straw Speleoseismite Stalactite...
- stalactites, and the latter may grade into a form known as a tubular lava helictite. A runner is a bead of lava that is extruded from a small opening and...
- orchid found in Asia". 22 November 2011. "Oceania Bibliography" (PDF). Helictite: Journal of Australasian Cave Research. 25 (1). 1987. Retrieved 16 March...
- crystallize and force the flow in different directions. These tubular lava helictites may also be influenced by air currents through a tube and point downwind...
- Zealand, the Antipodes, and Galapagos. "Oceania Bibliography" (PDF). Helictite: Journal of Australasian Cave Research. 25 (1). 1987. Archived (PDF) from...
- of the Cenote Lakes of the Lower South East of South Australia" (PDF). Helictite, Journal of Australasian Cave Research. 34 (1): 17. ISSNĀ 0017-9973. Archived...
- slow precipitation. These include flowstones, stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, soda straws and columns. These secondary mineral deposits in caves are...