Kalktuff
Deutsch: Kalktuff
English: Tufa
Wachsender Kalktuff; Calcareous Tuff, active sedimentation
Uracher Wasserfall, debris of collapsed "nose" and fresh Kalktuff; Albtrauf, Swabian Alb
Stone gutter of Calcareous Tuff; Steinerne Rinne in Franconian Jura
Forward growing stone gutter; Wachsender Stein, Lower Bavaria
Hump of Calcareous Tuff; Dreimühlen Wasserfall, Eifel
Calcareous Tuff, growing behind the water; The Burren, Yorkshire
Karst spring precipitates fine Travertine; Mont Dauphin, France
Wachsender Kalktuff, details
fresh and encrusted moss; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
Calcareous Tuff; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
growing „nose" of Calcareous Tuff; Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
Calcareous Tuff; Aude, France
Kalksinterterrassen; Travertine Terraces
Travertine terrace; Lillach, Franconian Alb
Travertine terrace; Steinlach, Albtrauf
Travertine terraces; Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
Travertine terrace; Guetersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
Kalktuff als Baumaterial; high quality building material
400 years old building bloc of Calcareous Tuff, not weathering
Hohen Tübingen, 1606, lower castle gate; Calcareous Tuff building
Seeburg, Albtrauf, old powerstation, built with local Calcareous Tuff
Seeburg, Albtrauf; old village house, built with blocs of Calcareous Tuff (villages' underground)
Staatsgallerie Stuttgart, facade from local quarry of „Cannstatter Travertin"
I.G.Farben-Haus, Frankfurt, facade: „Cannstatter Travertin"
Esslingen, Saint Albertus Magnus church, pillar in the south nave
Kalksinter, dichte Schichtung, kaltes Wasser; calc sinter, cold water
Pure calc sinter, typical for aqueducts and all kind of waterfacilities, concrete, buildings, etc.
Roman aqueduct, clogged by fine Sinter; Euskirchen-Kreuzweingarten, Germany
Roman aqueduct, clogged, Mons-Fréjus; Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Aqueduct deposit, calc sinter with ferrum impurities, etc.; ca. 150mm, 150 years. Mons-Fréjus
Fresh and old calc sinter deposits at Uracher Wasserfall, Albtrauf
Kalksinter, dichte Schichtungen, warmes/heißes Wasser, calc sinter, warm/hot water
Calc sinter terrace, Saturnia, Toscana, Italy
Giant calc sinter terraces in Yellowstone National Park
Hot springs of Pamukkale (greek Hierapolis), Denizli, West-Turkey
Stream of Calc sinter (travertine) at „Hot Springs Bridgeport, California"
Precipitation of Calc sinter (travertine) at „Hot Springs Bridgeport, California". Photosynthesis of algae accelerates the precipitation
Kalktuff, petrified
Relatively pure limestone/Kalkstein (calcium carbonate)
Calcium carbonate chemically precipitating from water, Schwitzerland
Petrified Calcareous Tuff, the porous Travertine, Uracher Wasserfall
Kalktuffbarre, petrified piled deposits
Outcrop of Calareous Tuff deposit at river Jagst, Germany
Hump of petrified Calcareous Tuff. Horizon of karst spring exsurgence lowered. Mühltal of Seeburg, Albtrauf
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia: Cluster of giant Calcareous Tuff and Travertine deposits
Biotischer Kohlendioxid-Entzug, biotic accelerator: assimilation
fresh moss, filter and substratum for carbonate deposit
Eukaryota, largest class of mosses, accelerates precipitation by its photosynthesis
Cyanobacteria using photosynthesis ("Blaualgen")
Primärhöhlen, primary caves
- Primary caves in outcrop of Calcareous Tuff, St. Wendel zum Stein, Jagst
Incomplete primary cave, Pamukkale, Turkey- Primary cave in Calcareous Tuff; Mühltal in Seeburg, Albtrauf
Incomplete primary cave, Gütersteiner Wasserfall, Albtrauf
