vughy

English

Etymology

From vugh +‎ -y.

Adjective

vughy (comparative more vughy, superlative most vughy)

1. 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.