Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption 0
From a Latin word tophous then in Italian tufo and finally tuff 0
Durable Rock, Medium Hardness Rock 0
Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock 0
Dull, Vesicular and Foilated 0
Decorative Aggregates, Entryways, Flooring, Homes, Interior Decoration 0
As Building Stone, As Facing Stone, Garden Decoration, Office Buildings, Paving Stone 0
Building houses or walls, Construction Aggregate 0
Artifacts, Monuments, Sculpture, Small Figurines 0
Welded tuff, Rhyolitic tuff, Basaltic tuff, Trachyte tuff, Andesitic tuff and Ignimbrite. 0
Always found as volcanic pipes over deep continental crust 0
Archaeological Significance
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Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle, Pacific Ocean 0
Tuff is formed when large masses of ash and sand which are mixed with hot gases are ejected by a volcano and avalanche rapidly down its slopes. 0
Hydrogen Sulfide, Sulfur Dioxide 0
Burial Metamorphism, Cataclastic Metamorphism, Contact Metamorphism, Hydrothermal Metamorphism, Impact Metamorphism, Regional Metamorphism 0
Biological Weathering, Chemical Weathering, Mechanical Weathering 0
Chemical Erosion, Coastal Erosion, Glacier Erosion, Sea Erosion, Water Erosion, Wind Erosion 0
Heat Resistant, Impact Resistant, Pressure Resistant, Wear Resistant 0
Deposits in Eastern Continents
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Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Yemen 0
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda 0
France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom 0
Antarctica, Hawaii Islands 0
Deposits in Western Continents
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Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, USA 0
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay 0
Deposits in Oceania Continent
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Central Australia, Western Australia 0