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I was told a few years ago in another cave that this type of formation were "aragonite anthodites". When I look up anthodites they are hollow quills. Though these formations could develop into a set of quills someday, they seem to usually be singular. The formation I am looking for a name for are always more macrocrystalline and do not appear to have ever been hollow (so not really helictites). This is a cross between popcorn and helictites, but with little/no water, and not quite either formation. Thanks for any confirmation on "corraloid" or other name.

Jen.

Jen, since coralloid is a "catch-all term describing a variety of nodular, globular, botryoidal, or coral-like speleothems," you probably can't go wrong with calling that a coralloid. Now which morphological variety it is is another question. Knobstone? Globularite? Clusterite?

Are there more like it?

Bonny

Lots of them, this area even had some with multiple arms. Some seem more crystal-like, some more popcorn like. Some of these even had frostwork on the ends.

I think I'll call them coralloids from now on, just not sure whether it goes under calcite, gypsum, or aragonite in places where they catergorize inventory like that.