| 单词 |
Kellaways |
| 释义 |
Kellaways Geol.|ˈkɛləweɪz|
Also formerly Kellaway, Kelloway(s).
The name of a village near Chippenham in Wiltshire, used attrib. to designate a group of clays and calcareous sandstones of Jurassic age lying below the Oxford clay and above the cornbrash, and found in a belt extending from Dorset to Yorkshire.
1813J. Townsend Character of Moses I. vi. 103 Kelloway rock. The next calcareous stratum, first attracted our notice, at Kelloway Bridge. 1888J. Prestwich Geol. II. xiv. 217 On the Continent the Kelloways Rock forms a division of almost equal importance with the Oxford Clay. 1913Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXIX. 152 (heading) The ‘Kelloway rock’ of Scarborough. [Note] The appellation ‘Kelloway’ is here used for quotations from Leckenby [1859] or in reference to Yorkshire beds, and ‘Kellaways’ in relation to deposits in Wiltshire and elsewhere. 1933W. J. Arkell Jurassic Syst. Gt. Brit. xii. 346 The thickest development of the Kellaways Rock exposed in the West of England was seen in a short cutting on the Midland and South-Western Junction Railway at South Cerney, near Cirencester. 1946[see Callovian a.]. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xiii. 307 The sandy limestone with hard flaggy bands of the Upper Cornbrash has a fauna resembling that of the overlying Kellaways Beds. |
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