Tufa

Synonyms for "tufa" (21 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Noun(2 words)
calc-tufacalcareous rock

Strong matches (6)

Noun(1 words)
carbonate rock

Related words (10)

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More general

5 entries
carbonate rockrocksedimentary rockstonevolcanic rock

More specific

2 entries
tufa deposittufa terrace

Collocations

6 entries
calcareous rockcarbonate rocktravertine deposittufa deposittufa formationtufa terrace

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries
tufa stonetuffaceous

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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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 error in age estimates made using uranium-series methods is not small enough to confirm results from ¹⁴C determinations.

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

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The tufas at Tianshengqiao have different shapes in different development stages and in different structural sections.

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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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