Carnicadj.
/ˈkɑːnɪk/ 1. Carnic Alps n. [translating Latin alpes Carnicae] a range of mountains extending along the border between Austria and Italy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec.
Mountains of the Moon1597
Carnic Alps1601
the Ghats1603
Pyreneans1768
Rocky Mountains1798
Balkans1802
Carnian Alps1802
Rockies1827
Carpathiana1832
Appalachians1834
Adirondack1838
keel1857
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. xxv. 71 These rivers of speciall name, and navigable, run into Danubius, Draus with more violence out of the Noricke Alpes; and Saus out of the Carnicke Alpes more gently.
1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 364 The Julian, or Carnic Alps, (now called Birnbaumer Wald,) which divide Carinthia from Italy.
a1977 D. Wheatley Time has Come (1979) III. xxii. 213 Force the Ljubljana gap through the Carnic Alps.
1989 Nature 5 Jan. 39 A 330-metre core drilled through the marine Permian/Triassic boundary in the Carnic Alps of Austria allows closely correlated studies of geochemistry [etc.].
2. Geology. Also Karnic. [ < German karnisch (coined by E. von Mojsisovics 1869, in Verhandl. d. K. K. Geol. Reichsanstalt (Vienna) iv. 65).] = Carnian adj. 2. Also absol. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > secondary or Mesozoic > Triassic
Triassic1841
Norian1871
Carnic1897
Carnian1948
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > secondary or Mesozoic > Triassic-Jurassic transition
Rhaetic1862
Rhaetian1883
Carnic1948
1897 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 5 510 The writer remembers once collecting numerous Ceratites in the Karnic limestone of the California Trias.
1948 R. L. Sherlock Permo-Triassic Formations ii. 256 Mytilus (?) problematicus marks a very constant horizon about the middle of the Carnic in South Island.
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