Talk:Calc-sinter

Tufa
A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals, by Albert Huntington Chester, 1896, has calc-sinter as a synonym of tufa. DuncanHill (talk) 14:07, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That was more or less my take on it. Klein (Manual of Mineralogy 1986 p496) states that "calcareous tufa" is a porous form of travertine. Given the above, I'd say make this a redirect to either tufa or travertine as calc-sinter is simply German usage for the same stuff (this seems to have been a translation from de-wiki) and is a redundant stub. Vsmith (talk) 14:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * There was a thread on the Science ref desk about this, the eventual answer came from Jolyon Ralph of mindat.org, who I asked last night. A similar answer has been given at GeologyRocks (another forum), I'll give links to those presently. Tend to agree about a redirect, it does seem to be an obsolete term in English (about the only example of it in use that I found was in a work by John Davy). DuncanHill (talk) 14:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Mindat.org page created in response to my query there . DuncanHill (talk) 14:34, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Separate mindat thread . DuncanHill (talk) 14:36, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * GeologyRocks thread . DuncanHill (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2008 (UTC)