单词 | calcareous tuff |
释义 | > as lemmascalcareous (or calc) tuff a. calcareous (or calc) tuff: see tufa n. a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > calcareous tuff tophus1555 calcareous tuff1569 calcareous tufa1811 calc-tuff1822 schaalstein1866 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. xliv. 99/2 With their axes and hatchets they cut thereof as a man shoulde do on a Tuph or softe Stone. 1603 [see tuff stone n. at Compounds 1]. 1745 Platt in Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 266 A rocky petrified Substance,..by the Miners called Tuft. 1785 R. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 353 (note) Tuft is a stone formed by the deposit left by water passing through beds of sticks, roots, vegetables &c. of which there is a large stratum at Matlock Bath. 1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (1818) 166 When these waters suddenly lose the excess of carbonic acid..essential to the solution of the lime, there is an irregular precipitation; hence those tender calcareous cellular stones, and calcareous spongy tuffs. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 771 Calcareous tuf consists of similar incrustations made by petrifying rivulets running over mud, sand, vegetable remains, etc. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 213 As calc tuff, it [carbonate of lime] is of very frequent occurrence throughout the primary and secondary district. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Tuff or Tufa, a soft sandstone or calcareous deposit. < as lemmas |
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