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UK
/tjˈuːfɐ/
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[ US /ˈtufə/ ]
[ US /ˈtufə/ ]
NOUN
- hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash
- a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime
How To Use tufa In A Sentence
- A round tower of stakes and reeds, nine or ten feet high, is raised and plastered; a floor is next made of soft tufa, or ant-hill material and cowdung. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
- Several days might be profitably spent by the antiquarian in investigating the contents of the different tiers of galleries; while the geologist would find matter for interesting speculation in the partial intrusion of the older lithoid tufa here and there into the softer and more recent volcanic deposits in which the passages are excavated, and in which numerous decomposing crystals of leucite may be observed. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- It is perched on a plateau of tufa rock, almost like it's been carved straight from its roots.
- Built of uniformly gray, granular volcanic tufa, or peperino, the courtyard was completed by 1579, as recorded in the building documents.
- It's an otherworldly site, fringed with dunes and studded with bone-white calcium carbonate spires called tufa towers.
- It's a conglomerate of three houses opened to one another and built in the old style - with arches, tufa (soft volcanic stone) and many stairs.
- Among the 30 different types of stone recognized are varieties of diorite, granite, bedded tuff, sandstones, limestones, and tufa.
- ALABASTER) and other stalagmitic deposits also consist of calcite, and so do the allied deposits of travertine, calc-sinter or calc-tufa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- Nereis IB porae pertufae glabris iegmentis 'CXX. annuiaribus dcntato et duplidtir forcipaco. Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..
- ALABASTER) and other stalagmitic deposits also consist of calcite, and so do the allied deposits of travertine, calc-sinter or calc-tufa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
