Which word identifies the hanging icicle-shaped formations in caves that are created by deposition?

A sandbars

B sinkholes

C stalactites

D stalagmites

Stalactites are the ones that hang down from the ceiling in a cave ...

C stalactites

Explanation:

Stalactite is forms of elongated forms of different minerals that remixed with a solution by dripping water slowly. It is therefore, more of an icicle on the ceiling of from the sides of a carven. They commonly shoe central tubes and traces of former cell with a diameter of a drop of water.

When a tip of a stalactite leaves drops, it is deposited along its rim forming the simplest stalactite with thin-walled straw, and this dangerous form reaches about 20 inches.