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tufa

/ˈt(j)uːfə/

tufa noun: calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.

tufa: calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring
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Noun

tufa (countable and uncountable, plural tufas)

  1. 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...1993, George V. Benson, Meeting Highlights, George V. Benson (editor), Proceedings of the Workshop "Ongoing Paleoclimatic Studies in the Northern Great Basin", Geological Survey Circular, US...
    • Resedimented tufas also contribute where erosion has washed detritus from other hillside tufa deposits.2003, Martyn Pedley, Ian Hill, “The recognition of barrage and paludal tufa systems by GPR: case studies of the geometry and correlation of Quaternary freshwater carbonates”, in C. S. Bristow, Harry...
  2. A variety of volcanic rock, tuff.
    • 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.1825, "Oliver Oldschool" (Joseph Dennie), John Elihu Hall (editors), The Port Folio, page 426
    Synonyms:
    tuff

tufa meaning in Tamil

tufa in Tamil

சுண்ணகப்பாறை

Examples of tufa in a sentence

  • 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.1993, George V. Benson, Meeting Highlights, George V. Benson (editor), Proceedings of the Workshop "Ongoing Paleoclimatic Studies in the...
  • The tufas at Tianshengqiao have different shapes in different development stages and in different structural sections.2011, Chuxing Huang, “9: Characteristics and Formation Mechanism of the Tufa Landscape in Tianshengqiao in Zhongdian County”, in Tadej...

Synonyms of tufa

Forms of tufa

pluraltufas

Origin of tufa

From Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus or tōphus. Doublet of tuff.

Words formed from tufa

Questions about tufa

What does tufa mean?
Tufa means calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.
What is tufa in Tamil?
Tufa in Tamil is சுண்ணகப்பாறை. See Tufa meaning in Tamil.
How do you use tufa in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is tufa?
Tufa is a noun.
How do you pronounce tufa?
Tufa is pronounced /ˈt(j)uːfə/.
What is the plural of tufa?
The plural of tufa is tufas.

Words near tufa in the dictionary

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  7. tufaceous
  8. tufalike
  9. tufan
  10. Tufano
  11. Tufanos

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