The Muschelkalk (shellbearing limestone, French: calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe. It has a Middle Triassic (240 to 230 million years) age and forms the middle part of the Germanic Trias, that further consists of the Buntsandstein (lower part) and...
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• (n.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.
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(from the article `geochronology`) ...fairly widespread exposure and distribution. Based on his earlier work, Friedrich August von Alberti identified in 1834 these three distinct ... ...of rock strata in central Germany that lay above Permian rocks and below Jurassic rocks. (The name Trias referred to the division of these strata ... ...
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Musch'el·kalk` noun [ G., from
muschel shell +
kalk limestone.]
(Geol.) A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See
Chart , under
Geology .
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