{"id":223339,"date":"2025-10-13T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/drip-by-drip-research-provides-first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:04:30","slug":"drip-by-drip-research-provides-first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/drip-by-drip-research-provides-first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes","title":{"rendered":"Drip by drip: Research provides first complete mathematical description of stalagmite shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drip-by-drip-research-provides-first-complete-mathematical-description-of-stalagmite-shapes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature\u2019s most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars of calcite, ranging from centimeters to many meters in height, rise from the cave floor as drip after drip of mineral-rich water deposits a tiny layer of stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature\u2019s most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars of calcite, ranging from centimeters to many meters in height, rise from the cave floor as drip after drip of mineral-rich water deposits a tiny layer of stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}