tufa in English

noun

[tu·fa || 'tuːfə /'tju-]

kind of porous limestone deposited by springs and streams

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1. As rivers, rain, and wind began to erode the soft tufa, canyons opened up.

2. Additional but smaller-scale operations produce nephrite jade, magnetite, dolomite, barite, volcanic cinder, pumice, flagstone, clay, tufa, fuller’s earth and zeolites.

3. However, Yao Bi's campaign resulted in failure, and while Tufa Rutan nominally continued to submit for a time, he soon declared full independence.

4. As you float down the Loire and enter Anjou, fortified châteaux give way to chalky-white tufa cliffs concealing an astonishing subterranean world of wine cellars, mushroom farms and (literally) underground art.

5. In all cases there is a stairway, often long and steep, Crumbling with time and worn with the feet of pious generations. THE CATACOMBS OF ROME WILLIAM HENRY WITHROW At B will be observed the employment of masonry to strengthen the Crumbling walls of the friable tufa