Tufa meaning

to͝o'fə, tyo͝o'-
A soft, friable, and porous sedimentary rock consisting of calcium carbonate and formed by the evaporation of water, especially at the mouth of a hot spring or on a drying lakebed. It can also be precipitated by algae or bacteria.
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Any of various sedimentary rocks, as travertine, made up of deposits of calcium carbonate formed by evaporation or precipitation in or near a cave, spring, lake, etc.
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A soft, friable, and porous sedimentary rock consisting of calcium carbonate and formed by the evaporation of water, especially at the mouth of a hot spring or on a drying lakebed. It is similar to, but harder than, travertine.
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The calcareous deposit of lime found near hot springs.
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The volcanic rock tuff.
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Origin of tufa

  • Obsolete Italian tufa, tufo from Latin tōfus
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Italian tufo, from Latin tōphus or tōfus.
    From Wiktionary

Tufa Sentence Examples

  • Ten shafts lined with slabs of tufa which were there found may have been the approaches to tombs or may have served as wells.

  • The hill on which Sessa lies is a mass of volcanic tufa.

  • Calcareous tufa or travertine occurs in the valley of Matlock and elsewhere, the southern part of the county, from Matlock southward by Heage, Belper and Duffield to Derby.

  • Calcareous tufa or travertine occurs in the valley of Matlock and elsewhere, and in some places is still being deposited by springs.

  • by abrupt tufa cliffs; but a massive wall found by excavation on the S.W.

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