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Anthodites are featured at the commercial Skyline Caverns in Virginia, US

Anthodites (Greek ἄνθος ánthos, "flower", -ode, adjectival combining form, -ite adjectival suffix) are speleothems (cave formations) composed of long needle-like crystals situated in clusters which radiate outward from a common base. The "needles" may be quill-like or feathery. Most anthodites are made of the mineral aragonite (a variety of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃), although some are composed of gypsum (CaSO₄·2H₂O).

The term anthodite is first cited in the scientific literature in 1965 by Japanese researcher N. Kashima,^[1] who described "flower-like dripstone" composed of "an alternation of calcite and aragonite".^[2]^[3]

^ Kashima, N. (1965), Mem. Ehime Univ., Sect. 2, Ser. D, 5, 79.
^ Hey, M.H. and P.G. Embrey (1974), "Twenty-eighth List of New Mineral Names" Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Mineralogical Magazine, December 1974, Vol. 39, pp 903–932.
^ See also the abstract in Min. Abstr. 18-282.

[1] Kashima, N. (1965), Mem. Ehime Univ., Sect. 2, Ser. D, 5, 79.

[2] Hey, M.H. and P.G. Embrey (1974), "Twenty-eighth List of New Mineral Names" Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, Mineralogical Magazine, December 1974, Vol. 39, pp 903–932.

[3] See also the abstract in Min. Abstr. 18-282.

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