Meaning of Tufa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
   countable, uncountable
2. A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“B.J. Szabo presented the results of a survey of the tufa mounds that border⟳ Pyramid Lake indicating that uranium-series methods can be used to approximate the ages of such tufa deposits. In the Pyramid Lake Basin, tufas less than 50,000 years old contain⟳ large quantities of excess thorium, and the error in age estimates made using uranium-series methods is not small enough to confirm⟳ results from ¹⁴C determinations.”

“Resedimented tufas also contribute⟳ where erosion has washed detritus from other hillside tufa deposits.”

“The tufas at Tianshengqiao have⟳ different shapes in different development stages and in different structural sections.”

“1825, "Oliver Oldschool" (Joseph Dennie), John Elihu Hall (editors), The Port Folio, page 426, This again is followed by a bed of stony tufa of a reddish colour, containing fragments of a spongy lava, amphigone, pyroxene, mica, and common lava; and, like⟳ the former, traversed by argillaceous veins.”

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