Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A layered deposit of calcium carbonate or another mineral, formed by water flowing along the walls or floor of a cave.
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- noun geology A
layered deposit ofcalcite formed bywater flowing down the walls, and along the floor of acave .
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Examples
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Another guide also turned off the lights in another room to show visitors the dim phosphorescense from a "flowstone" formation.
The Altoona Mirror 2010
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You could see them underfoot, suspended in the flowstone, hundreds, no, thousands of them.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Overrun with flowstone and alabaster talus and thick vines, it looked like a forest without the trees.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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The lower battlements were smothered with flowstone.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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They walked across the flowstone, now and then peering down through the mineral lens at the plague victims.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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She went to the creature suspended in flowstone, the mineral seepage.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Portions were rocky with slides or jacketed in flowstone.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Clemens approached a tall, translucent flange of flowstone.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Suspended in the flowstone beneath her feet, a dozen dead hadals seemed ready to rise up and break free.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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For a moment, he thought his buddy in the flowstone had come back to life and broken free.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
hernesheir commented on the word flowstone
(n): A common variety of speleothem, which is deposited calcite covering a surface in a smooth, even, often massive layer.
January 15, 2009