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itemprop="description" class="hyphens"><p>Salt cave stalactites rapidly precipitate from the dripping salt cave water and may disappear just as fast in a gust of moist wind.</p></div> <p> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2019/08/12/imaggeo-on-mondays-the-ephemeral-salt-crystals/" target="_tab" rel="noopener noreferrer">Featured on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union</a> </p> </div> <div id="comments"> <form method="get" action="/login/"><input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="3tmOqbpZP2EhRM2nFG2p3KCc1MKy4JHh2wifGAkOyAFqnORpjWg6wtnwbcKxu54o"> <fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="next" value="/view/14320/"> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default pull-right" data-username="">Login to Comment</button> </fieldset> </form> </div> </div> <div id="right"> <h4>Category</h4> <ul> <li><a href="/category/geochemistry-mineralogy-petrology-volcanology/">Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (986)</a></li> </ul> <h4>Location</h4> <div 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