1836 J. Phillips II. i. 26 These dun ‘courses’ are said to throw the veins which run east and west, four or five fathoms laterally.
1877 A. H. Green (ed. 2) vii. §2. 276 Ribs of Magnesian Limestone are met with in the Carboniferous L. of Yorkshire where they are known as Dun Courses.
1944 100 251 Dolomitization along faults is common in Wharfedale, making ‘dun courses’.