I call them heligmites when their initial growth starts on the floor. When they start on the wall, they should be called "wallawallamites", don't you think??? Besides, we all know that when a stalactite and stalagmite grow together, they're called "Mighty Tights". Come to think of it, should pure white stals (sticky uppies or hangy downies doesn't matter) just be called "Titie Whities"?
Peter On Apr 13, 2014, at 11:34 AM, DONALD G. DAVIS wrote: > "Lee H. Skinner" <skin...@thuntek.net> wrote: > >> Why aren't there more helicmites? > > There are some references to "heligmites" in the literature; I > consider the term unnecessary, because helictites typically have little or > no response to gravity, and are the same structures and have the same > origin no matter what direction they are growing. > --Donald > _______________________________________________ > SWR mailing list > s...@caver.net > http://lists.caver.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swr > _______________________________________________ > This list is provided free as a courtesy of CAVERNET
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