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Stream sinks
Stream sinks
(Derbyshire River Wye)
(Derbyshire River W ye)
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Drip
Drip
Steps
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Flitch of Stream
Flitch
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Rimstone
Rimstone
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The Big Drip
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Flowstone
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Mary Queen
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Figure 8.1 Plan of Poole’s Cavern, Buxton.
Source: After Allsop (1992)
placed in it with calcite and ‘turn them to stone’. The ‘Constant Drip’ is a stalagmite that has grown over thousands
of years, but, perhaps owing to an increased drip rate over recent years, it now has a hole drilled in it. Nearby is a new
white flowstone formation that is made by water passing through old lime-tips on the hillside above. Further along
hangs the largest stalactite in the cave – the ‘Flitch of Bacon’, so called owing to its resemblance to a half-side of that
meat. It is almost 2 m long, but was longer before some vandalous visitor broke off the bottom section around 1840.
Nearby, on the cave floor, are rimstone pools. The next chamber is the ‘Poached Egg Chamber’, which contains