tufaceous
- a word derived from tufa.
Example Sentences
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In the Despoblado Valley, north of Copiapo, the horizontal elevation, judging from the compact, stratified tufaceous deposit, capping the distant mountains at corresponding heights, was about ten thousand feet.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
The first is straight, with parallel sides, and about four feet wide; it consists of whitish, indurated tufaceous matter, precisely like some of the beds intersected by it.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
Both men and women braid palm, and in every yard there is excavated in the soft, tufaceous rock, a cueva, or cave, in which they work.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
The sedimentary and tufaceous beds have throughout a general similarity, though with infinite variations.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
Eleventhly: sedimentary and tufaceous beds as before, passing into sandstone, including some conglomerate: the pebbles in the latter are of claystone porphyry, well rounded, and some as large as cricket-balls.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
