Rhaetic
Britishadjective
noun
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The film’s minimal dialogue is conducted in reconstructed Rhaetic, a language spoken in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times.
From Nature ● Mar. 13, 2018
The first remains—two teeth of a small marsupial—were discovered in the Rhaetic beds of the Upper Trias, and a somewhat similar discovery has been made in beds of corresponding periods in Devonshire and North America.
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by T. S. (Thomas Suter) Ackland
Contemporaneous volcanic rocks are associated with the Ordovician beds and with the Rhaetic sandstones in several places.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
In both a successive series of continental deposits, ranging from the Carboniferous to the Rhaetic, rests on an older base of crystalline rocks.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The first of these, or the Keuper, underlying the beds before described as Rhaetic, attains in Wurtemberg a thickness of about 1000 feet.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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