What is "dripstone"

Usage examples of "dripstone".

As he rejoined the central trail the second time, his flashlight caught a glimpse of color: there, on a high shelf of dripstone, was a collection of Indian fetishes, left hundreds of years before.

Pendergast played his light around the cavern wall that rose behind the dripstone mound.

In minutes he was standing in a narrow passage full of dripstone formations whose intricacy made him think of the valves and piping of the body.

And the stonework was ancient, most of it covered by a thin translucent layer of dripstone which must have taken centuries or more to form.

The thing was mummified, where dripstone had fused its legs to the wall and commenced covering them with gleaming calcium.

On the south side is a semi-circular headed window, with a carved dripstone and nook shafts, the capitals of which bear a similar character to those in the Galilee Chapel of the cathedral.

Beyond the pool lay a stretch of flat ground giving way to a slope of irregular dripstone steps which rose to the far wall of the chamber.

Balconies, verandas, dripstones, running molds, and mullions carved from mocha-colored limestone.

The chariot had reached the house, whose broken dripstones were slobbering torrents of water.

Dripstone molding surmounted every portal and fenestration, fashioned in curious designs both rich and elegant.

Its façade was pockmarked, its mullions splintered, its dripstones snapped off.

Narrow crawlspaces and vertical cracks also showed signs of passage: a delicate crystal crushed here, a smear on an otherwise snowy white dripstone there—the variety of ways a human could betray his movements through a cave were almost infinite.