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Vughy vs Vug - What's the difference?

vughy | vug | Derived terms |

Vughy is a derived term of vug.


As an adjective vughy

is containing vughs, vuggy.

As a noun vug is

a small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.

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.

    vug

    English

    (wikipedia vug)

    Alternative forms

    * vugh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
  • Derived terms

    * vugginess * vuggy, vughy

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