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Vuggy vs Vughy - What's the difference?

vuggy | vughy |

Vughy is a derived term of vuggy.



As adjectives the difference between vuggy and vughy

is that vuggy is containing vugs while vughy is containing vughs, vuggy.

vuggy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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), 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.
  • * 1975 , Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis , 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).
  • * 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, 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.

    vughy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing vughs, vuggy.
  • * 1929 , New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand , Volume 2, page 20,
    • Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.
  • * 1990 , Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea , Volume 2, page 996,
    • On Mount Gee, the 20 to 50 m thick, dense to highly vughy sequence is characterised by discontinuous, irregular, banded to rhythmically layered quartz, specular hematite and siliceous reddish brown hematitic 'siltstone'.
  • * 2002 , W. R. Dearman, J. R. Coffey, An engineering zoning map of the Permian limestones of NE England'', in James S. Griffiths (editor), ''Mapping in Engineering Geology , page 201,
    • Fig. 4. Autobrecciated and vughy' limestones from the north-west wall of Houghton Cutting (355507) on the A690 trunk road; (a) typical ' vughy autobrecciated limestone; (b) localized development of autobrecciation in bedded limestone.