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单词 kellaways
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Kellawaysn.

/ˈkɛləweɪz/
Forms: Also formerly Kellaway, Kelloway, Kelloways.
Etymology: < Kellaways, the name of a village near Chippenham in Wiltshire.
Geology.
Used attributively 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.
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Oxford clay1812
cornbrash1813
Kellaways1813
Portland oolite1814
coral-rag1816
oolite1816
Oxford oolite1818
Kimmeridge clay1830
lias1833
Portland sand1836
skull-cap1839
Solenhofen slate1841
Stonesfield slate1855
Callovian1856
Tithonian1869
coralline oolite1871
Lincolnshire limestone1873
Ampthill Clay1877
Aalenian1882
Pliensbachian1903
1813 J. Townsend Char. Moses I. vi. 103 Kelloway rock. The next calcareous stratum, first attracted our notice, at Kelloway Bridge.
1888 J. Prestwich Geol. II. xiv. 217 On the Continent the Kelloways Rock forms a division of almost equal importance with the Oxford Clay.
1913 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 69 152 (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.
1933 W. J. Arkell Jurassic Syst. Great 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 W. J. Arkell in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LVII. 8 Formerly, (1933) the present author maintained that the Callovian should comprise only the Kellaways beds of Kellaways, Wiltshire, and that the whole of the Oxford Clay of Oxford should be included in the Oxfordian; however, he has come to the conclusion that this would be wrong... The line of division should..be drawn between the Lamberti and the Mariae zones.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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