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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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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

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