Vughy vs Vug - What's the difference?
vughy | vug | Derived terms |
Containing vughs, vuggy.
* 1929 , New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand , Volume 2,
* 1990 , Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea , Volume 2,
* 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 ,
A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
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)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.
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'.
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.