GUADALUPIAN

Meaning of GUADALUPIAN in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|üpēən adjective

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Guadalupe Basin, west Texas and New Mexico + English -ian

: of, relating to, or constituting a subdivision of the American Permian — see geologic time table

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

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OCHOAN STAGE — post-Guadalupian time of deposition of the Upper Permian Series of rock strata in the United States, characterized by the development …
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