 ... masses that hang like icicles from the roof, or of strong concretions adhering to the sides of cavities into which the water thus impregnated finds admission; to such deposits the term STALACTITE is applied. " If the percolation of water containing...  A System of Mineralogy - Página 172por Robert Jameson - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Kidd - 1809 - 324 páginas
...very minute crystals, superficially investing them, Stalagmite. If the percolation of water containing calcareous particles is too rapid to allow time for...it has fallen from the roof upon the floor of the cavern; and in this case the deposition is called a stalagmite : a verbal distinction adopted merely... | |
 | William Buckland - 1824 - 378 páginas
...admission: to such deposits the term STALACTITE is applied. If the percolation of water containing calcareous particles is too rapid to allow time for...it has fallen from the roof upon the floor of the cavern; and in this case the deposition is called STALAGMITE : the substance deposited is the same... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 páginas
...admission; to such deposits the term STALACTITE is applied. " If the percolation of water containing calcareous particles is too rapid to allow time for...it has fallen from the roof upon the floor of the cavern, and in this case tht deposition is called STALAGMITE; the substance deposited is the same as... | |
 | 1860 - 564 páginas
...admission; to such deposits the term STALACTITE is applied. " If the percolation of water containing calcareous particles is too rapid to allow time for...it has fallen from the roof upon the floor of the cavern, and in this case the deposition is called STALAGMITE; the substance deposited ia the same as... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 páginas
...deposits the term STALACTITE is applied. " If tho percolation of water containing calcareous psrticles is too rapid to allow time for the formation of a stalactite, tho earthy matter is1 deposited from it after it has fallen from tho roof upon tho lloor of the cavern,... | |
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