Are these mammary formations?

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Are these mammary formations?

Postby Buford » Mar 24, 2012 4:57 pm

There are some globular formations in Watch Cave (FL) that do not look to me like the mammary formations I have seen in speleo-publications (see below). What are they, if not mammaries?


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Re: Are these mammary formations?

Postby wyandottecaver » Mar 25, 2012 12:40 pm

Anastamoses? they really dont look right for those either though
I'm not scared of the dark, it's the things IN the dark that make me nervous. :)
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Re: Are these mammary formations?

Postby Buford » Mar 25, 2012 7:53 pm

Anastomoses are speleogens. These are speleothems, and are bulbous stalactites,
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Re: Are these mammary formations?

Postby Larry E. Matthews » Mar 25, 2012 9:31 pm

Look more like potatoes, to me.

Maybe they are "Potatotites". :)
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Re: Are these mammary formations?

Postby Buford » Mar 26, 2012 7:28 am

Cute, Larry, cute. Breakfast will go down wholesomely now. LOL
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