Voggy vs Vuggy - What's the difference?
voggy | vuggy |
Characterised by the presence of vog.
*2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 45:
*:This is the battle that I had witnessed for myself, in the voggy dusk. (geology) Containing vugs.
* 1962 , Thomas A. Steven, James C. Ratté, Geology and Ore Deposits, Summitville District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 343), Geological Survey (U.S.) (publisher),
* 1975 , Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis ,
* 1976 , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Deep Sea Drilling Project, National Ocean Sediment Coring Program, Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program , Initial Report,
As adjectives the difference between voggy and vuggy
is that voggy is characterised by the presence of vog while vuggy is containing vugs.voggy
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(en adjective)vuggy
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(en adjective)page 41,
- Parts of the resistant veins have been strongly leached and consists(sic) of vuggy , porous quartz ; elsewhere compact quartz has replaced most of the constituents in the original rock.
page 371,
- The diachronous layers under the lagoons, when traced seaward, become more and more vuggy , as cement is more patchily developed, and eventually pass into separate lumps (Taylor and Illing, 1969).
page 46,
- The basalt consists of a dark greenish-gray, aphyric, vesicular to vuggy' altered rock that is diabasic and vesicular near the top, but becomes steadily coarser, more ' vuggy , and trachitic in texture in the lower part of the unit.