Crossword-Solution: TRIAS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trias | n. | The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TRIAS | anagram | ARIST, ARTIS, ASTIR, ATRIS, ISART, ISTAR, ISTRA, RATIS, RITAS, SATIR, SIRAT, SITAR, SITRA, SRITA, STAIR, STARI, STRIA, TARSI, TIRAS |
We have 6 clues for the answer “TRIAS”
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| Political union of old German Empire. | 1 answer |
| TRINITY (theol.) | 1 answer |
| The old German Empire, regarded as a triplicity. | 1 answer |
| Term in geology | 2 answers |
| Geologic period | 9 answers |
| Geological period | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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CEMZAE
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eruption
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Sentences with TRIAS (5)
The bottom is the mountain limestone; and the lid is the new red sandstone, or Trias, as they call it now: but the coal you cannot see.
Moreover, it is well known that, even if certain footprints are to be taken as unquestionable evidence of the existence of birds, they are not known to occur in rocks earlier than the Trias, while indubitable remains of birds are to be met with only much later.
Ducrost and Arcelin noticed fragments of elephants’ tusks, calcareous plaques, and some sandstone disks from the Trias, with notches and equidistant lines evidently having a similar purpose.
The disturbances in the case here adverted to occurred between the Carboniferous period and that of the Trias, and this interval is so vast that they may have occupied a great lapse of time, during which their parallelism was always preserved.
They afford the first positive proof as yet obtained of the co-existence of a varied fauna of the highest class of vertebrata with that ample development of reptile life which marks all the periods from the Trias to the Lower Cretaceous inclusive, and with a gymnospermous flora, or that state of the vegetable kingdom when cycads and conifers predominated over all kinds of plants, except the ferns, so far, at least, as our present imperfect knowledge of fossil botany entitles us to speak.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1943).