Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

tufitas

English translation:

small tuffs or small tufas

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Jan 13, 2009 17:08
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Spanish term

tufitas

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Geology
Informe proyecto ambiental de una mina:
La Formación xx comprende una secuencia de ignimbritas riolíticas, a las que se asocian tobas, tufitas y aglomerados volcánicos ácidos.

Small tuffs...? Alguien me puede ayudar? Gracias !
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4 +1 small tuffs or small tufas
4 +2 tuffites

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small tuffs or small tufas

Main Entry: tuff
Inflected Form(s): -s
Etymology: Middle French tuf, from Old Italian tufo tufa
: a rock composed of the finer kinds of volcanic detritus usually more or less stratified and in various states of consolidation -- called also tufa

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Five volcanic tuffs were tested under laboratory conditions. Three tuffs from Germany ranging from basaltic to rhyolite. tuff and two acid volcanic tuffs ...
www.springerlink.com/index/7003m045773r7107.pdf

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You're welcome! I've seen tufas in Mono Lake in California, so that's why I knew this ...
http://www.monolake.org/about/story
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I thought so! Muchas gracias por tu ayuda Patricia!
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agree Christine Walsh
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thank you, Chris!
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tuffites

The tuffites result from the rehandling by the water of the Tuf S (or tuffs , for the international denomination).
For example, if the tuffs are set up in a basin, water will be able to alter these Sédiment S (effect of transport) and, joining exogenic sediments, the resulting deposit will be of volcanogenic origin. It is this association which one names tuffite.
1. Association of Phosphates with Tuffites in a Core of Sediments ...
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derived from underlying or associated tuffites. At the. same time, the intensely phosphatized sediments similar to phosphorite in composition, ...
www.springerlink.com/index
1. Bentonitized tuffites in the Lower Eocene deposits of the ...
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New occurrences of bentonitized tuffites were described from numerous outcrops of the Lower Eocene flysch rocks of the Subsilesian Unit.
nsdl.org/resource/2200/20080315101937916T - 7k - En caché - Páginas similares
2. ANNALES SOCIETATIS GEOLOGORUM POLONIAE
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The bentonitized tuffites, composed of almost pure dioctahedral ... The age of the tuffites is estimated as the Early Eocene (Glomospira div. sp. and ...
www.infomag.ru/journals/j061e/24998.html - 8k

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muchas gracias por tu ayuda!
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agree liz askew : http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&as_qdr=all&q=tuffites+geology&start=10&sa=N
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agree Eileen Banks
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