Lias is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIAS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the lowest series of rocks of the Jurassic system
• the system of rocks deposited during the Lias, consisting of shales and limestones rich in fossils.
• a blue-grey clayey limestone derived from marl deposited in the Lower Jurassic, found chiefly in south-western England.
• the earliest epoch of the Jurassic period, lasting from about 208 to 178 million years ago.
• 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 Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
• lowest series of rocks of the Jurassic system
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a blue limestone rock

Words related to LIAS

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Words that contain LIAS

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How to use LIAS in a sentence

• That rock runs in a broad belt across England, from Whitby in Yorkshire, to Lyme in Dorsetshire, and is known as Lias.
• Farther down there were other hillocks, equally bare, but formed of the blue-looking lias marl which the husbandman detests with good reason, for its sterility is incorrigible.
• The lower sides of some of the hills were blue with lias marl, and wherever they were steep not a blade of grass grew.
• In their lower part the beds of lias were shown with singular regularity.
• Mortar made with hydraulic lime, that is to say, lime with a considerable admixture of clay, such as the lias lime, sets under water or in contact with wet earth.
• They are a boss of the coal measures, I believe, shoved up with the lias, the lias lying round them.
• Lias lime is hydraulic, that is, it will set firm under water.
• A mortar that has found approval for tall chimney shafts is composed by grinding in a mortar-mill one part of blue lias lime with one part each of sand and foundry ashes.
• It also possesses some large lias quarries which have been prolific in fossils.
• In this grand apotheosis of man which nature teaches, progress lias already been made.

Similar words containing LIA without suffix s

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