📚 noun • entry_id 36758
tufa
Meanings (ES + gloss)
toba (calcárea)
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 dep…
Resedimented tufas also contribute where erosion has washed detritus from other hillside tufa deposits.
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