Jillabenan Cave features soda straw stalactites, flowstone shawls, cave coral and helictites.
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New straw stalactites can often form next to a previously active, but now dry ( dormant ) straw, because the leachate has simply found an easier path through the micro cracks and voids in the concrete structure.
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Calthemite straw stalactites precipitated ( deposited ) from hyperalkaline leachate have the potential to grow up to H " 200 times faster than normal cave speleothems precipitated from near " soda " straw has been recorded as growing 2 mm per day over several consecutive days, when the leachate drip rate was a constant 11 minutes between drips.
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