Lias

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  • n. A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England.
  • n. A stratigraphic group from the lower Jurassic period, consisting of thin layers of blue limestone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oölite. See the Chart of geology.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geology, the lower division of the Jurassic.
    • Word Usage
    "The water contains common salt, sulphates of magnesia and soda, and carbonate of lime, and rises in a deep valley at the junction of granite and lias, which is, however, concealed for some way by an immense mass of detritus, through which the spring forces itself."
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