Kalktuff

Deutsch: Kalktuff

English: Tufa

See also: Category:Tufa.

Wachsender Kalktuff; Calcareous Tuff, active sedimentation

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  Uracher Wasserfall, debris of collapsed "nose" and fresh Kalktuff; Albtrauf, Swabian Alb
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  Stone gutter of Calcareous Tuff; Steinerne Rinne in Franconian Jura
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  Forward growing stone gutter; Wachsender Stein, Lower Bavaria
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  Hump of Calcareous Tuff; Dreimühlen Wasserfall, Eifel
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  Calcareous Tuff, growing behind the water; The Burren, Yorkshire
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  Karst spring precipitates fine Travertine; Mont Dauphin, France

Wachsender Kalktuff, details

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  fresh and encrusted moss; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
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  Calcareous Tuff; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
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  growing „nose" of Calcareous Tuff; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
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  Calcareous Tuff; Aude, France

Kalksinterterrassen; Travertine Terraces

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  Travertine terrace; Lillach, Franconian Alb
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  Travertine terrace; Steinlach, Albtrauf
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  Travertine terraces; Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
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  Travertine terrace; Guetersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf

Kalktuff als Baumaterial; high quality building material

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  400 years old building bloc of Calcareous Tuff, not weathering
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  Hohen Tübingen, 1606, lower castle gate; Calcareous Tuff building
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  Seeburg, Albtrauf, old powerstation, built with local Calcareous Tuff
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  Seeburg, Albtrauf; old village house, built with blocs of Calcareous Tuff (villages' underground)
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  Staatsgallerie Stuttgart, facade from local quarry of „Cannstatter Travertin"
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  I.G.Farben-Haus, Frankfurt, facade: „Cannstatter Travertin"
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  Esslingen, Saint Albertus Magnus church, pillar in the south nave

Kalksinter, dichte Schichtung, kaltes Wasser; calc sinter, cold water

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  Pure calc sinter, typical for aqueducts and all kind of waterfacilities, concrete, buildings, etc.
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  Roman aqueduct, clogged by fine Sinter; Euskirchen-Kreuzweingarten, Germany
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  Roman aqueduct, clogged, Mons-Fréjus; Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur
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  Aqueduct deposit, calc sinter with ferrum impurities, etc.; ca. 150mm, 150 years. Mons-Fréjus
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  Fresh and old calc sinter deposits at Uracher Wasserfall, Albtrauf

Kalksinter, dichte Schichtungen, warmes/heißes Wasser, calc sinter, warm/hot water

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  Calc sinter terrace, Saturnia, Toscana, Italy
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  Giant calc sinter terraces in Yellowstone National Park
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  Hot springs of Pamukkale (greek Hierapolis), Denizli, West-Turkey
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  Stream of Calc sinter (travertine) at „Hot Springs Bridgeport, California"
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  Precipitation of Calc sinter (travertine) at „Hot Springs Bridgeport, California". Photosynthesis of algae accelerates the precipitation

Kalktuff, petrified

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  Relatively pure limestone/Kalkstein (calcium carbonate)
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  Calcium carbonate chemically precipitating from water, Schwitzerland
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  Petrified Calcareous Tuff, the porous Travertine, Uracher Wasserfall

Kalktuffbarre, petrified piled deposits

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  Outcrop of Calareous Tuff deposit at river Jagst, Germany
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  Hump of petrified Calcareous Tuff. Horizon of karst spring exsurgence lowered. Mühltal of Seeburg, Albtrauf
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  Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia: Cluster of giant Calcareous Tuff and Travertine deposits

Biotischer Kohlendioxid-Entzug, biotic accelerator: assimilation

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  fresh moss, filter and substratum for carbonate deposit
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  Eukaryota, largest class of mosses, accelerates precipitation by its photosynthesis
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  Cyanobacteria using photosynthesis ("Blaualgen")

Primärhöhlen, primary caves

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  Primary caves in outcrop of Calcareous Tuff, St. Wendel zum Stein, Jagst
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  Incomplete primary cave, Pamukkale, Turkey
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  Primary cave in Calcareous Tuff; Mühltal in Seeburg, Albtrauf
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  Incomplete primary cave, Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf