Can multiple meshes share vertex buffers?

Imagine a Minecraft-style game where blocks are grouped into chunks for optimization purposes. Only faces adjacent to air need to be rendered, so each chunk needs a different set of faces, but the faces could theoretically be constructed from the same finite set of vertices. Instead having copies of the same vertices for each chunk and/or re-uploading them to the GPU every time chunk geometry changes are made, is there a way to give each chunk its own index buffer but a shared vertex buffer?