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Albian, a. and n. Geol.|ˈælbɪən|
[ad. Fr. Albien (1842, A. D'Orbigny, Paléont. franç. terrains crétacés), f. Alba (now Aube), a department of France + -ian.]
Epithet of a division of the Cretaceous formation in Europe (see quot. 1910); belonging to or found in this, as a fossil.
1847in R. Chambers Vestiges (ed. 6) xii. 163 [citing translated statement of F. J. Pictet] Is it probable that the albian fauna had been completely annihilated, and then..replaced by a fauna altogether new, and so similar to it? 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 505/1 In England it is usual to regard the Albian stage as equivalent to the Upper Greensand plus Gault, that is, to the ‘Selbornian’ of Jukes-Browne. |