tufa
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- noun
- /ˈtuːfə/
- Specialized
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tufa
- Where the tufa breaks through the earth, the terrain is covered with mottled tapestries of white, black, yellow, orange, and rust.
- tufa stone
No, I'm just like, yeah, tufa is like a thing you find especially in like limestone climbing.
- No, I'm just like, yeah, tufa is like a thing you find especially in like limestone climbing.
Examples
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Mono Lake, with its turquoise water and unusual tufas, is quite close.
Academic text (2004) -
The best place to stay is Urgup, on the road from Kayseri to Nevsehir, where the oldest tufa dwellings are built against the crags of a long plateau and seem camouflaged there.
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In ancient times, a tunnel was carved out of the tufa under the houses to guarantee a water supply should there be a siege.
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The impermeability and constant temperature of the tufa have kept the colors alive over the centuries.
Academic text (2001) -
This area is also known as the Valley of the Monks because many monks lived inside the tufa pinnacles.
Academic text (2001) -
What you're looking at here is the tufa tufa, the natural tufa rock of the Palatine Hill.
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Here in the city, mixed into the disarray, there are eccentric homes built from the tufa.
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From this town, one can see the wide areas of pink gorges and tufa quarries of Cappadocia.
Academic text (2001) -
Mono Lake is famous for its striking tufa formations that rise dramatically from the water's edge.
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Visitors can explore the stunning landscapes created by tufa deposits that formed over thousands of years.
Synonyms
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A light colored stone with many small holes made by mineral springs used for floors and walls
A soft porous rock formed when spring water rich in calcium leaves mineral layers
Compounds
- Specialized
A soft porous rock formed when spring water rich in calcium leaves mineral layers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tufa comes from an old Italian and Latin word tufa meaning 'a soft lump of rock'. Think of water rich in minerals slowly building up a soft, porous lump at a spring, so tufa is the name for the easy-to-carve rock formed by that water.