The Lias Group or Lias is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) found in a large area of western Europe, including the British Isles, the... 5 KB (570 words) - 19:06, 3 September 2022 |
Early Jurassic (redirect from Lias (period)) ±0.8 Ma. Certain rocks of marine origin of this age in Europe are called "Lias" and that name was used for the period, as well, in 19th-century geology... 12 KB (992 words) - 21:58, 21 March 2024 |
mythological and spiritual associations. The conical hill of clay and Blue Lias rises from the Somerset Levels. It was formed when surrounding softer... 37 KB (4,072 words) - 16:37, 13 March 2024 |
which the Lias was deposited. An example is the British Blue Lias, which has an upper Rhaetian to Sinemurian age. Another example is the lower Lias from the... 7 KB (524 words) - 16:07, 10 November 2022 |
Geology of Dorset (section Lower Lias) lower Lias. Formed during the Late Rhaetian to Pliensbachian, in what was then a shallow marine environment, the lower Lias is composed of Blue Lias, Black... 40 KB (5,604 words) - 12:23, 10 June 2023 |
Lilstock Formation (redirect from White Lias) Warwickshire. It gets the name ‘lias’ from the quarrymen's dialect for ‘layers’, referring to its natural state when quarried. White lias is part of the Langport... 4 KB (362 words) - 05:45, 9 June 2023 |
the Hettangian age, saw the deposition of the lower Lias, in Great Britain known as the Blue Lias. The Sinemurian Stage was defined and introduced into... 7 KB (497 words) - 21:49, 17 May 2023 |
Lias Group. It is most prominently exposed at its type locality in cliff section between Lyme Regis and Charmouth (alongside the underlying Blue Lias)... 34 KB (1,527 words) - 02:34, 7 January 2024 |
Blue Lias has been used locally as a building stone and as a raw material for lime mortar and Portland cement. Until the 1960s, Puriton had Blue Lias... 121 KB (11,494 words) - 19:02, 26 March 2024 |
deep water covered the area the alternating limestones and shales of the Blue Lias were deposited. After the early Jurassic no evidence of geological events... 8 KB (940 words) - 21:01, 18 July 2023 |
when new houses were built on former farm land, a former infilled stone Blue Lias quarry, Puriton Park, and on fields between the existing houses. The old... 16 KB (2,047 words) - 23:17, 19 July 2023 |
as a collector. She became an expert on the fossils to be found in the Blue Lias around the town and discovered the first complete Ichthyosaur skeleton... 21 KB (2,323 words) - 21:31, 7 February 2024 |
1862 when the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd was founded to take advantage of the locally available deposits of Blue Lias limestone. A factory... 85 KB (8,823 words) - 10:31, 8 March 2024 |
Cyclic alternation of competent and less competent beds in the Blue Lias at Lyme Regis, southern England... 63 KB (7,695 words) - 02:14, 12 February 2024 |
laterally into, and are overlain by, the alternating blue-grey limestones and shales of the Blue Lias. The Jurassic rocks are generally rich in fossils.... 6 KB (758 words) - 21:40, 18 February 2023 |
lived inland but went to Kilve to cool off. In the early 19th century the Blue Lias shale formation outside of Kilve was quarried, during which process the... 3 KB (353 words) - 03:26, 28 November 2021 |
rhomaleosaurids are known from England, many specifically from lower Blue Lias deposits that date back to the earliest Jurassic, just at the boundary... 8 KB (498 words) - 18:01, 17 February 2024 |
first discovered in 2014 by Rob and Nick Hanigan and Sam Davies at the Blue Lias Formation on the South Wales coast. The genus name Dracoraptor is from... 14 KB (1,566 words) - 20:14, 11 January 2024 |
medieval period is primarily Dundry stone from Somerset, though local blue lias constitutes most of the stonework done in the post-Reformation period... 62 KB (7,042 words) - 08:58, 18 January 2024 |
striped yellow-blue Jurassic limestone cliffs. The Glamorgan coast is the only part of the Celtic Sea with exposed Jurassic (blue lias) geology. This... 203 KB (18,310 words) - 03:22, 19 March 2024 |