Tufa

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Tufa columns at Mono Lake, California.

Tufa is a porous variety of limestone. It is formed by the precipitation of carbonate minerals from water at normal temperatures.

Geothermally heated hot springs sometimes produce similar (but less porous) carbonate deposits known as travertine.

Do not confuse with the rock made of volcanic ash, which is called tuff.

Tufa Media

• Rubaksa tufa plug.jpg

  Rubaksa tufa plug, after drying of the river, in Ethiopia

• 黃龍爭艷池(Huanglong Park).jpg

  Tufa deposits at Huanglong, Sichuan, China

• Tufa dam in Chelekwot.jpg

  Tufa dam in Chelekwot, Ethiopia

• Timothy O'Sullivan, The Pyramid and Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1867.jpg

  The Pyramid and Domes tufa rock structures, Pyramid Lake, Nevada

• Nacionalni park Krka, Roški slap (2023).jpg

  Rogský vodopád (Roški slap) v Národní parku Krka, Chorvatsko

• Plitvice-RaiCast-2006.JPG

  Tufa on Plitvice waterfalls