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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Mono Lake (section Tufa towers)
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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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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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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Blyde River Canyon (redirect from Kadishi tufa falls)
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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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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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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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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Gymnostomum viridulum (redirect from Luisier's Tufa-moss)
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 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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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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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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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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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 (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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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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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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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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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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Trona Pinnacles (category Tufa)
Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other...
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Soda Lakes (section Tufa formations)
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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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 (redirect from Blunt-leaf Tufa-moss)
Gymnostomum calcareum is a species of moss belonging to the family Pottiaceae. It has cosmopolitan distribution. "Gymnostomum calcareum Nees & Hornsch"...
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Solomon Demse (redirect from Solomon Tufa Demse)
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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