CAVE FORMATIONS

   1. Secondary mineral deposits formed by the accumulation, dripping, or flowing of water in a cave [10].

   2. Unsatisfactory term used to include all varieties of calcite, gypsum and other, rarer, mineral cave deposits; therefore a synonym for the equally unwieldly speleothem or the colloquial term ‘stall’ [9].

   See also sinter; speleothem.