Crossword-Solution: LIAS 4 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Lias n. The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a
name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones
underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.

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LIAS anagram AILS, ALIS, ASIL, IALS, ILAS, ILSA, ISAL, ISLA, LAIS, LASI, LISA, SAIL, SALI, SIAL, SILA

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Geologically important series of bluish rocks. 1 answer
sequence of rock strata found in a large area of western Europe 1 answer
lower strata 1 answer
limestone, blue 1 answer
former name of the earliest Jurassic period 1 answer
Oldest division European jurassic system. 1 answer
LOWER strata of Jurassic series 1 answer
Jurassic subdivision 1 answer
Jurassic division 1 answer
Important rock strata of the Jurassic system. 1 answer
European geological division. 1 answer
English limestone 1 answer
Division of Jurassic system. 1 answer
CLAY, geological formation of layers of 1 answer
BLUE limestone 1 answer
geological division 5 answers
Geologic division 5 answers
Geological epoch. 6 answers
Geologic period 9 answers
limestone 13 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with LIAS (5)

There were huge tortoises too, paddling about among these other reptiles, which Perry said were Plesiosaurs of the Lias.
At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996
The women made no objection, they were fond of our tertúlias, and they likewise reckoned on one small glass of Malaga wine, with which I invariably presented them.
The Zincali George Borrow 2019
One of the first things he seriously pondered over, was the position of the various soils and strata that came under his notice on the lands which he surveyed or travelled over; more especially the position of the red earth in regard to the lias and superincumbent rocks.
Self-Help Samuel Smiles 1997
His geologic vision was so acute, that though the road along which he passed from York to Newcastle in the post chaise was from five to fifteen miles distant from the hills of chalk and oolite on the east, he was satisfied as to their nature, by their contours and relative position, and their ranges on the surface in relation to the lias and “red ground” occasionally seen on the road.
Self-Help Samuel Smiles 1997
Here is lias rock in the side of the cutting; layers of hard blue limestone, and then layers of blue mud between them, in which, if you could stop to look, you would find fossils in plenty; and along that lias we shall run to Bath, and then all the rocks will change.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 2005

Quotes with LIAS (2)

- Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, forças jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vão por falta de apoio, e isso aos milhares, e isso em toda parte! Cem, mil boas ações e iniciativas que poderiam ser implementadas e reparadas com o dinheiro da velha, destinado a um mosteiro! Centenas, talvez milhares de existências encaminhadas; dezenas de famílias salvas da miséria, da desagregação, da morte, da depravação, das doenças venéreas - e tudo isso com o dinheiro dela. Mate-a e tome-lhe o di…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime e Castigo
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d'état, and bound them to their own aggressive purposes. In view of the great service that conscription has rendered to tyranny and war, it is fundamentally shortsighted for any liberty-loving and peace-desiring peoples to maintain it as an imagined safeguard, lest they become the victims of the mo…
B.H. Liddell Hart The Revolution in Warfare
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1948–1985).