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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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017

He further was impressed with the strange notion that the hideous Kilkenny marble is of the same colour as the exquisitely delicate grey 28of the blue lias.

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

Good blue lias clay, which dries as solid as limestone, would perform this trick to perfection; and the toad might easily be relegated accordingly to the secondary ages of geology.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

There he was left, while his companions went fossil-hunting, and stayed so long as to excite their compunction, and quicken their steps when they at length detached themselves from the enticing blue lias.

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Rameur, E.