vugh

plural vughs

1. alternativeAlternative form of vug.

   1917, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources, Issues 26-35, page 106, Several years later larger vughs at lower levels were met with containing a much greater number of stalactites. One vugh as large as a room contained so many that it was difficult to move about in it.

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   The explanation of the not infrequent pairs of hemispherical concretionary masses with polished cross-sections might lie in the miners carefully extracting the rounded and bulbous masses of fluorite projecting from vugh linings.

   1955, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, volume 30, page 60

   The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.

   1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107