Muschelkalkn.
/ˈmʊʃlˌkalk/, U.S. /ˈmʊʃ(ə)lˌkælk/ Geology.
A series of limestone rocks of the Middle Triassic in Europe, best represented in Germany, lying above the Bunter and below the Keuper; (usually with the) the Middle Triassic period as represented by this series.
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red marl1625
Muschelkalk1824
poecilite1832
keuper1844
bunter1874
Karoo beds1876
1824 W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River I. 212 Others have extended the Jura limestone to make it include the muschel kalk of Germany.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 326 One group..the Muschelkalk of the Germans,..has no precise equivalent among the English strata.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 9/2 The fossil remains of the muschelkalk participate in the more common species of the Bunter sandstein below and the Keuper above.
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) II. 987 A fish from the Muschelkalk..has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation.
1923 L. D. Stamp Introd. Stratigr. xii. 194 In Germany the ‘facies-fossils’ of the Muschelkalk do reappear at a much higher horizon.
1957 Clay Minerals Bull. 3 177 We have studied some Muschelkalk and Keuper samples from borings in Perigny (France).
1992 Gourmet Feb. 150/3 The Clos St.-Hune (no more than three or four acres of Muschelkalk, a chalk composed of billions of tiny shellfish cells..) is the source of the Trimbachs' best Riesling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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