tufa
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tufa
- /ˈt(j)uːfə/
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From Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus or tōphus. Doublet of tuff.
noun tufas
- Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring. 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 e
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A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
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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Talk about this word "tufa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tufa. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tufa. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tufa "tufa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tufa.
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@misc{tufa_2026,
title = {tufa},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tufa},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
