blue lias

British  

noun

1. a type of rock composed of alternating layers of bluish shale or clay and grey argillaceous limestone See also Lias

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blue lias

Perry writes of blue lias and saltings; gorse thickets and bladderwrack; coltsfoot and cowslips.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2017

In the course of last year; a fossil crocodile was dug up at Allemagne, a village about a mile distant, imbedded in blue lias.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The exterior shafts were blue lias, and those within either blue lias or Purbeck marble, though there are one or two shafts of red Draycot stone in the western responds of the nave.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

I glanced round despairingly at the geologists, but they were lost to everything except blue lias and old red sandstone, and there was no hope of effecting a diversion in that quarter.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur