How to Use tufa in a Sentence

tufa

noun
  • 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  • The tufa system is no longer active, apart from small drips during the rainy season.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
  • Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Limestone tufa towers emerge from the ancient lake’s shores while the blue saline waters stand in stark contrast to the sprawling earthen desert.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Summer brings quiet paddling, kayaking, and beach camping among tufa towers.
    — Ted Alvarez, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Summer brings quiet paddling, kayaking, and beach camping among tufa towers.
    — Ted Alvarez, Outside, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Limestone formations are also scattered throughout the lake and are called tufa towers.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Formations of tufa, a porous limestone, dot the lake, including one that gives Pyramid its name.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • Carved from porous tufa stone once covered by the sea, the four wine cathedrals are considered an engineering marvel.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But today, just to stand beside the small tufa niche where a Jewish child was laid to rest 2,000 years ago feels like a kind of prayer.
    — David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • At Mono Lake, visitors can gaze upon the tufa towers, unique natural structures made from limestone.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Over time, these waters precipitate calcium carbonate and form tufa.
    — Benjamin Schoville, Quartz, 4 Apr. 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 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
  • Distinct limestone formations called tufa stand out—literally and figuratively—at Mono Lake.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • Distinct limestone formations called tufa stand out — literally and figuratively — at Mono Lake.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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