Lexicographical Neighbors of Calctuff
Literary usage of Calctuff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science by Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good (1818)
"The second kind of alluvial deposit, or that which occupies toe flat land, consists
of loam, clay, sand, turf, and calctuff *. Here also occur earth and ..."
2. The elements of physiography by Prince, John J (1885)
"calctuff is usually a porous friable deposit, but sometimes its layers are firm
enough to be used for building purposes, being very valuable from their ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"This salt occurs native as an efflorescence upon limestones, sandstones, marls,
chalk, and calctuff; it. forms a saline crust in caverns, as also upon the ..."
4. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"Transparency 0 or 1. Hardness 6 to 7. Moderately heavy. Fracture even. Sp. 4.
calctuff*. This mineral occurs in alluvial land, and appears U ..."
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