Bathonian
Britishadjective
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of or relating to Bath
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geology of or denoting a stage of the Jurassic system in NW Europe
noun
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a native or resident of Bath
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the Bathonian period or rock system
Example Sentences
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Butler, P. M. & Hooker, J. J. New teeth of allotherian mammals from the English Bathonian, including the earliest multituberculates.
From Nature • Nov. 12, 2017
Or you may run against Mr. Christopher Anstey of the over-praised Guide, walking arm-in-arm with another Bathonian, Mr. Melmoth, whose version of Pliny was once held to surpass its original.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin
CORNBRASH, in geology, the name applied to the uppermost member of the Bathonian stage of the Jurassic formation in England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
The Bathonian stage includes the following beds in ascending order:— 1.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
The Fullonian lies at the base of the Great Oolite or Bathonian series, but its palaeontological characters place it between that series and the underlying Inferior Oolite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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