tufa
IPA: tˈufʌ
noun
- Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
- (petrology) A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
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Examples of "tufa" in Sentences
- The image is featured in tufa article.
- Check out tufa for a new pic I uploaded.
- Tufa is common in many parts of the world.
- But the treachery of Tufa changed the situation.
- Tufa is today occasionally shaped into a planter.
- The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written ...
- These are attractive images, and illustrative of tufa.
- A review of tufa and travertine deposits of the world.
- A photo of the tufa mounds might be handy for the geology section.
- People sometimes call it tufa, like those stones you see in fish tanks.
- In c1781 the facade was decorated with tufa by the Marchioness of Buckingham.
- Tufa columns are an unusual form of tufa typically associated with saline lakes.
- Paleoglot: The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone skip to main
- It's not actually known what Edwin's symbol was Bede says he used a Roman-style standard called a tufa but doesn't describe it.
- A dull gray, local stone called tufa forms the Surgeon's unimpressive impluvium, while black-and-white mosaic flooring seems to be restricted to two rooms: the tablinum and a cubiculum.
- Prodigious quantities of ashes and cinders were discharged from the craters; and these, deposited and hardened by long pressure under water, formed the reddish-brown earthy rock called tufa, of which the seven hills of Rome are composed.
- It will have to fight against the sand that slips and gradually fills up the small amount of empty space obtained; it will perhaps, without crowbar or pickaxe, have to cut itself a gallery through something tantamount to tufa, that is to say, through earth which a shower has rendered compact.