tufa

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.

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

2. isim 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.”