Freshwater calcium carbonate.
1The formation is soft calcareous tufa, such as forms the bottom of all this basin.
2The valley, which gradually widens, is bordered with hills of calcareous tufa, called here tierra blanca.
3The fossil bones which lie in the calcareous tufa of this region will yet, we hope, reveal the ancient fauna.
4Formed of calcareous tufa
5These rocks, in the southern part of the country especially, are often covered with twelve or fifteen feet of soft calcareous tufa.
6"It's calcareous tufa I'm a-wearing, wove on me by exudation and accretion in the past two thousand years."
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