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Definition of Tuffs
1. tuff [n] - See also: tuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuffs
Literary usage of Tuffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"In the Lipari Islands and Hungary there are acid (rhyolitic) tuffs, of pale grey
or yellow colour, largely composed of lumps and fragments of pumice. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1907)
"These tuffs are associated with the basaltic lavas which form such a feature of
the geology ... The tuffs with which we are at present concerned are usually ..."
3. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"The tuffs of earlier geological |*riods have often been so much altered, ...
In the Carboniferous volcanic area of Central Scotland, t lie tuffs are made up ..."
4. The Geology of the Coama-Guayama District, Porto Rico by Edwin Thomas Hodge (1920)
"tuffs tuffs make up the greater part of this group and are, as a rule, ...
Microscopically they are chiefly lithic tuffs. The fragments are either augite ..."
5. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1903)
"In the dark grey tuffs it affects the margins only of a few of the glass-fragments.
In the paler tuffs it has extended more into their substance, ..."
6. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"Consequently only those varieties of crystalline trap which have been directly
the products of volcanic action have given rise to tuffs. ..."
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