Liassic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Liassic is an adjective meaning (geology) Alternative letter-case form of Liassic.
Meaning
(geology) Alternative letter-case form of Liassic.
More Meanings
- Consisting of or pertaining to lias (blue limestone).
Example Sentences
The top of a liassic stone wall/foundation, probed to a depth of 1.5 m, was recorded from 50 cm deep.
Parallel to this, on the north and south, are synclinal axes – the northern one allowing the liassic rocks to appear on the coast […].
A totally different liassic stone is Blue Lias, a whitish-grey stone obtainable only in relatively small pieces and difficult to dress.
Although in lithological characters almost every variety of rock seems to exist in the central axis of that chain, yet in fact it is composed of Jurassic and liassic deposits, lifted up ten thousand feet […].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lithiasic, lithiatic, lacustrian, lamproitic, lithosolic, lithic.
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