A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) forms beneath sea ice when a flow of extremely cold, saline water is introduced to an area of ocean water, being the undersea equivalent of a hollow stalactite or icicle. At the time of its creation, a brinicle resembles a pipe of ice reaching down from the underside of a layer of sea ice. Inside the pipe is the supercold, supersaline water being produced by the growth of the sea ice above, accumulated through brine channels. At first, a br

Ice stalactites and stalagmites in landscape underground ice cave inside mountain in Arctic between l towns Barentsburg and Longyearbyen among snow-capped mountains of Svalbard in spring. Spitsbergen.

Stalactite stone icicles hang from ceiling of cave in underwater Yucatan Mexico cenotes. Clean and clear underground water.

Rhodochrosite Stalactite Slice Ring, Hammered Rhodochrosite Pink Tourmaline Ring, 18k Gold and Sterling Silver - Etsy