tufsteen

Also known as volcanic tuff

thumb|Cliff face of welded tuff pockmarked with holes — some natural, some man-made — from Bandelier National Monument, [[New Mexico]] thumb|Etruscan architecture|Etruscan tuff blocks from a tomb at [[Banditaccia, Italy]] thumb|upright|A house constructed of tuff blocks in Rieden, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the [[Volcanic Eifel region, Germany]]

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Tuff is a type of rock formed from volcanic ash that has been compacted and sometimes fused together by heat. It has been used historically as a building material, as seen in structures ranging from Etruscan tombs to houses in volcanic regions like Germany and the American Southwest.

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Vinony's link graph records 2,199 inbound references to tufsteen, and connects out to Saxony, igneous rock and basalt.

It is catalogued under the topic Tuff.

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Key facts

Rock.name: Tuff
Rock.type: Igneous
Rock.image: Guadalupe Tuff.jpg
Rock.caption: Tuff from the Guadalupe Formation in Luzon, Philippines
Rock.composition: Volcanic ash
Rock.composition_secondary: Quartz, feldspars (sanidine, anorthoclase, plagioclase), biotite, pyroxene (augite), hornblende, and magnetite
Rock.class: Mafic to felsic
Rock.texture: Pyroclastic or Eutaxitic

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: pyroclastic rock
Material used: volcanic ash
Image: HoleInTheWallTuff.JPG

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Commons category: Tuff
different from: tufa
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000661

Sources (5)

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Article · Nederlands

Tufsteen, tuf of tuffiet is een sedimentair gesteente van door een vulkaan uitgestoten materiaal. Het kan bestaan uit verschillende componenten, maar het bindende materiaal is vulkanische as. Hierin zijn gesteentefragmenten van de vulkaan of het omringende gesteente te vinden. Brokstukjes tefra in de vorm van lapilli klitten samen met vulkanische as tot tufsteen. Onder andere vulkanisch glas (obsidiaan) wordt in tuffiet aangetroffen.

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