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Hoodoo Hall
Though resembling stalagmites, the "hoodoos" that crowd a 100-foot-long wall of this gallery are actually raft cones. Atop many of the cones lie aragonite bushes with their lush crystal foliage. Hoodoo Hall's decorated raft cones form the most concentrated grouping of such speleothems found anywhere.

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