tuffite
Sign in to savethumb|right|Tuffit from Hohenbol, Germany Tuffite is a tuff containing both pyroclastic and detrital materials, but predominantly pyroclasts.
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thumb|right|Tuffit from Hohenbol, Germany Tuffite is a tuff containing both pyroclastic and detrital materials, but predominantly pyroclasts.
According to the IUGS definition, tuffite contains 75% to 25% volcanic (epiclastic) material.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tuffite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.