tufa

How To Use tufa In A Sentence

• Beyond this point there is nothing of any special interest to arrest our attention, till we come to a considerable mass of ruins, consisting of broken Doric columns of peperino, part of a rough mosaic floor and brick pavement, and fragments of walls lined with tufa squares in the _opus reticulatum_ pattern. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• It's an otherworldly site, fringed with dunes and studded with bone-white calcium carbonate spires called tufa towers.
• All were so-called tufa towers, formations of calcium carbonate deposited by the mineral-rich lake water, which is two and a half times saltier than seawater and eighty times more alkaline.
• The unmatching plates and bowls include some made of stone or tufa.
• In the island of Teneriffe, strata of tufa, puzzolana, and clay, separate the range of basaltic hills from the currents of recent lithoid lava, and from the eruptions of the present volcano. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• Juvarra's Dresden capriccio seems to present the ship from the downstream end, as it shows the projecting oar platforms found in representations of antique galleys and which are present in the ancient travertine and tufa prow.
• Its recently retired director, Marco Polo Stufano, was an early champion of silver foliage and Victorian bedding plants, like cannas and coleus, which he used in surprising ways.
• Growing among the tufa formations in the marshes are dock, giant red Indian paintbrush, groundsel, horsetail, Rocky Mountain iris, an aquatic speedwell, stinging nettle (which often surrounds each tower), and willow herb.
• Contemporary Armenian architecture has followed the basic characteristics of its historical architectural tradition: simplicity, reliance on locally available geological material, and the use of volcanic tufa for facings.
• They were carved from locally quarried tufa—a soft volcanic stone—between 800 and 1722, when a Dutch explorer discovered the island.