tuffs
- plural of tuff.
Example Sentences
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Unlike some other kinds of rocks or sediment, tuffs contain crystals of zircon -- a mineral that formed during an eruption and are, as the name of the rock layer containing them suggests, tough.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
It is rare to find tuffs from this particular period of time, the late Cambrian period, between 497 and 485 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
In an ocean core collected in 1981, they found volcanic tuffs indicating a sharp increase in volcanism during the PETM.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2022
Remelting of cumulates as a process for producing chemical zoning in silicic tuffs: a comparison of cool, wet and hot, dry rhyolitic magma systems.
From Nature ● Dec. 12, 2017
In Louisiana, Mom had us climb up on the roof of the car and pull down tuffs of Spanish moss hanging from the tree branches.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
