How to Use tufa in a Sentence

tufa

noun
Definition of tufanext
  • Over thousands of years the tufa was eroded and shaped by water and wind.
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The tufa system is no longer active, apart from small drips during the rainy season.
    — Benjamin Schoville, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Oso’s akin and tufa soils bear more resemblance to the ground on Howell Mountain than the rest of Pope Valley.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The eerie tufa towers and migratory birds of Mono Lake.
    — Christopher Reynoldsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • Start with a visit to Mono Lake, a body of water with a chemistry so complex that chalky, stalagmite-like towers of tufa rise from its bed.
    — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Formations of tufa, a porous limestone, dot the lake, including one that gives Pyramid its name.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • Calcareous tufa is found throughout the southern portion of the Classico zone, while Alberese is mainly found in the south-central region.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The church, built from five different types of limestone, has shown more severe loss than the Long Barrack or Mission Concepción church, made mostly of a porous type of limestone, called tufa.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • Limestone formations are also scattered throughout the lake and are called tufa towers.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The hypersaline high-desert lake, famous for its towering, craggy tufa formations, has been at the center of long-running disputes over the city’s diversions of water from the lake’s feeder streams.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Given its eastern location, this could be a great last hike before exiting the park, and is easily combined with a visit to Mono Lake and its otherworldly tufa formations.
    — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Rising from its strange waters are tufa towers, or naturally erected columns of limestone.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Walk or row up to the otherworldly tufa towers—formed underwater by the mixing of calcium-rich freshwater springs with dissolved carbonates in the lake—or watch thousands of migratory birds feast on flies and brine shrimp.
    — Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011
  • Over time, these waters precipitate calcium carbonate and form tufa.
    — Benjamin Schoville, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Perhaps most spectacular, however, are Mono Lake’s tufa towers, created by the interaction of freshwater rising through alkaline lake water.
    — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022

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