They have a curving or angular form that looks as if they were grown in zero gravity. They are most likely the result of capillary forces acting on tiny water droplets, a force often strong enough at this scale to defy gravity.
Helictites are, perhaps, the most delicate of cave formations. They are usually made of needle-form calcite and aragonite. Forms of helictites have been described in several types: ribbon helictites, saws, rods, butterflies, "hands", curly-fries, and "clumps of worms. They can be easily crushed or broken by the slightest touch. Because of this, helictites are rarely seen within arm's reach in tourist caves. A soda straw or simply straw is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube.
They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of caves. A soda straw can turn into a stalactite if the hole at the bottom is blocked, or if the water begins flowing on the outside surface of the hollow tube.
These tubes form when calcium carbonate or calcium sulfate dissolved in the water comes out of solution and is deposited. In soda straws, as each drop hovers at the tip, it deposits a ring of mineral at its edge. It then falls and a new drop takes its place. Each successive drop of water deposits a little more mineral before falling, and eventually a tube is built up.
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Still have questions? There are many stalactite ceiling and stalacmite floor formations of varying shape and size throughout the cave system.
Underneath that memorial is a inch column that formed in less than 40 years. The image on the right shows this formation, but does not include various other inch stalactites that have grown around the ceiling. A ten-year-old, just by thinking about it, could question if these giant formations can grow in less than years, so why are we assuming that they took thousands, or millions, of years to form?
We, as Christians do not, but evolutionists are forced to because they have a religious worldview to maintain.
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