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Definition of Tuffaceous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuffaceous
Literary usage of Tuffaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Virgilina District of Virginia and North by Francis Baker Laney (1917)
"tuffaceous phase.—As regards mineralogical composition, alteration products,
color, relation to the veins and ores, and general metamorphism, the tuffaceous ..."
2. Bulletin (1904)
"augite with perhaps some tuffaceous members) the fact that the augite now found
in these rocks is invariably located only in the more altered varieties ..."
3. Annual Report (new Series).: Volume I-XVI...1885-1904 by Geological Survey of Canada (1896)
"... another outcrop of similar tuffaceous sandstone occurs on the west side of
the river. This dips S. 65° W. < 30°. It was estimated to be about one ..."
4. Transactions and Proceedings by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1893)
"Baked tuffaceous Conglomerate (interbedded with ... Baked tuffaceous Grit (interbedded
with ... in contact with tuffaceous Sandstone. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1908)
"The amygdaloidal phase is not abundant, and is usually so highly metamorphosed
that it is easily confused with the tuffaceous phase. ..."
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