Crossword clues for lias
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lias \Li"as\ (l[imac]"as), n. [Cf. F. lias, fr. liais sort of limestone, OF. also liois; perh. of Celtic origin, cf. Armor. liach, leach, a stone, Gael. leac, W. llech. Cf. Cromlech.] (Geol.) 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 O["o]lite. See the Chart of Geology.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England. 2 (alternative capitalization of Lias English)
Wikipedia
Lias may refer to:
- In geology:
- The Lias Group, a group in the stratigraphy of Great Britain, formed during the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic epochs. It includes the Blue Lias and White Lias. The Lias facies is found in large parts of Europe
- The German Lias, a stratigraphic term that today is used solely for lithostratigraphic units from the Lower Jurassic
- In older literature, Lias was also used as a synonym for the Early Jurassic epoch of the geologic timescale
- Lias (journal), title of the Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources
- Lias (troll), a troll drummer in the book Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
- Lias, Gers, a commune of the Gers département in France
- Lias De Lange, a member of South African band The Narrow
- Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Automatique pour les Systèmes (LIAS), a French laboratory situated in Poitiers
Lias (Dutch for sheaf or file; French: liasse) is a biannual double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of learning and education in a very broad sense. It is subtitled Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources.
Usage examples of "lias".
En effet ce tiroir semblait appartenir au capitaine: sur plusieurs liasses le nom de Valentin etait ecrit de la main de Gaston, et sur une autre celui de Leontine.
It lias been a challenge to logic and to mathematics, an inspiration to neurophysiology and to the theory of automata.
Although, to my knowl edge, the matter lias never been investigated or even pub licly discussed, there is no doubt that tens of thousands o£ whales were killed by the men who hunted submarines with ships or planes.