Muschelkalk

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:20:38

Musch"el*kalk` (?), n. [G., from muschel shell + kalk limestone.] Geol.

A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.

 

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