Other Uses of The Term
"Formation" is also used informally to describe the sometimes odd shapes (forms) that rocks acquire through erosional or depositional processes. Such a formation is said to be abandoned when it is no longer affected by the geologic agent that produced it. Some well known cave formations include stalactites and stalagmites.
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