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CALLOVIAN [2 records]

Record 1 2012-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Petrography
DEF

[Referring to] a stage of the Jurassic between the Oxfordian in the Upper Jurassic and the Bathonian in the Middle Jurassic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[Relatif à l']étage le plus récent du Jurassique moyen (ère secondaire).

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Petrography
DEF

[The] uppermost of the four divisions of the Middle Jurassic Series, representing all rocks formed worldwide during the Callovian Age, which occurred between 164.7 million and 161.2 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Étage le plus récent du Jurassique moyen (ère secondaire).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cronología
  • Petrografía
DEF

Piso inferior del Malm o jurásico superior; es posterior al batoniense y anterior al oxfordiense y data de unos 157 millones de años.

OBS

Viene su nombre de Callovium, denominación latina de la ciudad inglesa de Kelloway.

OBS

Pese a que la fuente citada escribe los nombres de los períodos geológicos con minúscula, el Diccionario de dudas de la Real Academia Española señala que tales sustantivos deben escribirse con mayúscula.

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