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    Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes. Geothermally heated hot springs sometimes...
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  • Tufa may refer to: Tufa, a variety of limestone Tufa, Germanic warrior active in 5th century Italy North Dock Tufa, petrified tufa formation in Sunderland...
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    Lake tufa dates back to the 1880s, when Edward S. Dana and Israel C. Russell made the first systematic descriptions of the Mono Lake tufa. The tufa occurs...
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    EF-Tu (redirect from TufA)
    EF-Tu (elongation factor thermo unstable) is a prokaryotic elongation factor responsible for catalyzing the binding of an aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) to the...
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    others. At 200 metres (660 ft), the Kadishi Tufa waterfall is the second tallest tufa waterfall on earth. A tufa waterfall is formed when water running over...
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  • Tufa (? - 492/493) was a Germanic warrior active in 5th century Italy. The name Tufa is East Germanic, and it is possible that he was Rugian. He was a...
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    The Tufa Bridges are two bridges made of tufa stone located in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1908 by George W. Burke, the bridges...
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  • Caerwys Tufa is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales. Tufa, a very soft limestone that was once used to...
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  • Tufa Rutan or Tufa Nutan (Chinese: 禿髮傉檀; 365–415), formally Prince Jing of (Southern) Liang) ((南)涼景王), was the last prince of the Xianbei-led Chinese Southern...
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  • Queen Tufa (Chinese: 禿髮王后; personal name unknown) (died 423) was a queen of the Xianbei-led Chinese Western Qin dynasty. Her husband was Qifu Chipan (Prince...
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  • Tufa Shujineng (Chinese: 禿髮樹機能; pinyin: Tūfà shùjīnéng; Wade–Giles: t'u-fa shu-chi-neng; died 279) was a Xianbei chieftain who lived during the Three Kingdoms...
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  • Mestawet Tufa (Amharic: መስታወት ቱፋ; born 14 September 1983 in Arsi) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She was the winner of the women's 10,000 metres...
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    Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve is located near Yosemite National Park within Mono County, in eastern California. It was established in 1981 by the...
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  • Tufa Wugu (Chinese: 禿髮烏孤; died 399), formally Prince Wu of Wuwei (武威武王), was the founding prince of the Xianbei-led Southern Liang dynasty of China. He...
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    UNESCO World Heritage list, for its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, and connected waterfalls. The national park was founded in...
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  • Gymnostomum viridulum is a species of moss belonging to the family Pottiaceae. It has almost cosmopolitan distribution. "Gymnostomum viridulum Brid". www...
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  • The North Dock Tufa is a small dome-shaped petrified well, with stalactites and stalagmites, tucked away behind the Marine Activities Centre at Sunderland...
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  • Tufa Lilugu (Chinese: 禿髮利鹿孤; died April or May 402), formally Prince Kang of Hexi (河西康王), was a prince of the Xianbei-led Southern Liang dynasty of China...
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  • The Tufa darter (Etheostoma lugoi) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae...
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    Tigist Tufa (born 26 January 1987) is an Ethiopian marathon runner. She was the winner of the 2014 Shanghai Marathon, setting a new course record and a...
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    extremely porous) deposits formed from ambient-temperature water are known as tufa. Travertine is a sedimentary rock formed by the chemical precipitation of...
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    Gymnostomum calcareum is a species of moss belonging to the family Pottiaceae. It has cosmopolitan distribution. "Gymnostomum calcareum Nees & Hornsch"...
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    habitats which include submerged karst, such as Zrmanja and Krka canyons and tufa barriers, as well as underground habitats. The country contains three ecoregions:...
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    was changed from Tuoba to Tufa because one of the Tufa ancestors was born on a blanket, and in the Xianbei language, "Tufa" meant "blanket." All rulers...
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  • Tufa Shujineng's Rebellion, also known as the Qin and Liang Provinces Rebellion (Chinese: 秦涼之變), was a tribal rebellion against the Western Jin dynasty...
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    water no longer mixes with surface waters. New tufa formations have served as a rare research example of tufa's rate of growth within a century. Maar volcanoes...
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    Jug Handle Kruse Rhododendron Los Osos Oaks Mailliard Redwoods Mono Lake Tufa Montgomery Woods Point Lobos Smithe Redwoods Torrey Pines Tule Elk Marine...
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  • Solomon Tufa Demse (born 31 December 1998) is an Ethiopian taekwondo practitioner. He represented Ethiopia at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan...
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    Kravica or Vodopad Kravica / Слап Кравица or Водопад Кравица) is a large tufa cascade on the Trebižat River, in the karstic heartland of Herzegovina in...
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    Hotsprings and tufa mounds (61°56′36″N 127°10′49″W / 61.94333°N 127.18028°W / 61.94333; -127.18028 (Rabbitkettle Hotsprings and tufa mounds)) are the...
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