I brought away specimens of one of the tufaceous layers of a pinkish colour and it is a most extraordinary fact that Professor. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
The secondary formation is represented by a fine limestone, in some places almost fit for the purposes of lithography, and a coarse gypsum often of a tufaceous nature. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
In many places were signs of water: lines of basalt here and there seamed the surface, and wide sheets of the tufaceous gypsum called by the Arabs Sabkhah shone like mirrors set in the russet framework of the flat. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
When these deposits occur in a flat tufaceous country like the present, a large space is devoid of vegetation, on account of the nitrates dissolving the tufa, and keeping it in a state unfavorable to the growth of plants. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Procidn, &c. they are the result of tufaceous substances. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
They slept that night at a well in a tufaceous rock on the N.W. of Chipereziwa, and never was sleep more sweet. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
They believed the human bones to have been enveloped by natural causes in the tufaceous matrix in which we now see them. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
On the slopes going up toward the lake the streams have cut precipitous cañons a thousand feet deep in this whitish tufaceous material. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
It is the last bed but one, the surface being composed of lightly coherent strata of tufaceous ash, worn into an undulating surface by the action of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
A mixture of lime and clay, a tufaceous deposit, and an apparently recent deposit of soapstone, containing a variety of substances, as alumina, silica, lime, soda, magnesia, and iron. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
From here, for a long distance, the road was a hard, steep climb, over limestone in great variety -- solid limestone, tufaceous stuff, concretionary coatings, satin spar, and calcite crystals. From Wordnik.com. [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference
In its course below the Victoria Falls I observed tufaceous rocks: these must contain the bones, for were they carried away from the great tufa Lake bottom of Sesheke, down the Victoria Falls, they would all be ground into fine silt. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death]
The major exposed rocks in the Dadi Property are Upper Jurassic Baiyinggaolao Formation dacitic tufaceous lava, dacitic tuff, rhyolitic tuff, and tufaceous sendstone and conglomerate, among which dacitic tufaceous lava and dacitic tuff are the main host rocks of mineralization. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
The lava flowed until it reached a nearly perpendicular precipice at the head of the valley of Calanna, over which it fell in a cascade, and being hardened by its descent, it was forced against the sides of the tufaceous rock at the bottom, so as to produce an extraordinary amount of abrasion, accompanied by clouds of dust worn off by the friction. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror] Reference
It seems, however, impossible to doubt that this accumulation of tufa, through the midst of which the Romans opened that long and spacious grotto, has been produced by the thick eruptions which have frequently issued from volcanos, and which, heaping up one upon another, have har - dened in time into this tufaceous stone; since both Vesuvius and Etna fumisV sufficient examples of such eruptions. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
A tufaceous ledge rising in the midst of marshy ground near the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
A tufaceous rock on the N.W. of Chipereziwa, and never was sleep more sweet. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
Cavities which are either on the declivity or at the foot of the mountain are gradually converted into subterranean resevoirs of water, which communicate by numerous narrow openings with mountain streams, as we see exemplified in the highlands of Quito. the fishes of these rivulets multiply, especially in the obscurity of the hollows; and when the shocks of earthquakes, which precede all eruptions in the andes, have violently shaken the whole mass of the volcano, these subterranean caverns are suddenly opened, and water, fishes, and tufaceous mud are all ejected together. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
The Vine is not even a native of Europe, but of the East, whence it was very early introduced into Europe; so early, indeed, that it has recently been found "fossil in a tufaceous deposit in the South of. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
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