tufa - large hand/display specimen from the paleoshoreline of ice age Lake Lahontan click to enlarge

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As described in 1925 by mining engineer Carl Millikan

the ceramics designed to withstand very high temperatures in excess of 1

both have strong phosphorescence

Publication was originally in separate fascicles

tufa - large hand/display specimen from the paleoshoreline of ice age Lake Lahontan click to enlargeTufa is a calcium carbonate deposit that forms around the outlet of a hot spring that emerges below the surface of a body of water. These examples were formed during the Pleistocene high stand of Lake Lahontan, which filled a connected grouping of basins in Nevada east of Reno. It was similar to ice age Lake Bonneville in Utah, and now is greatly reduced in size. Its peak was approximately 12,700 years ago and its largest remnant is Pyramid Lake,