Sentences with phrase «tufa towers»
The shoreline also boasts extraordinary tufa towers, vertical shafts of limestone that grow when underwater springs, rich in calcium, bubble up and come into contactwith carbonates in the lake.
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Walk or row up to the otherworldly tufa towers — formed underwater by the mixing of calcium - rich freshwater springs with dissolved carbonates in the lake — or watch thousands of migratory birds feast on flies and brine shrimp.
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The sun rose further, slowly illuminating the magical landscape below with towering fairy chimneys, chiselled canyons, caves and pigeon houses carved out of soft tufa rock, and a distant volcano on the horizon.