This portion of the main Carlsbad Caverns room offers the illusion that hundreds of needle-sharp teeth pointed down and poised to chomp. Instead, each stalactite is the collective residue of a single dripping seep, solidified from solution a calcium-infused drop at a time over many millennia. Amidst them sits a bottle-shaped stalagmite that has grown into the ceiling.
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