What types of cave formations are there?
a. Stalactites (hang on tight to the roof – they look a little like carrots hanging down), b. Stalagmites (might one day reach the roof – they are mounds of crystal rising upwards from the floor, sometimes looking like an upside down icecream cone), c. Columns (formed when a stalactite joins a stalagmite so a continual pillar of crystal extends from floor to roof), d. Flowstone (where the water dribbles over the base rock leaving a large sheet of crystal), e. Shawls (where a drop of water dribbles down the wall – one drop follows the next so that a sheet of crystal is built up which hangs like a sheet out from the wall), f. Helictites (curly formations which are formed by a complex set of processes which is too involved to describe here). There are many other types of formations but these are the main ones.
