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trias


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trias  \Tri"as\,  n.  [L.,  triad.  See  {Triad}.]  (Geol.) 
  The  formation  situated  between  the  Permian  and  Lias,  and  so 
  named  by  the  Germans,  because  consisting  of  three  series  of 
  strata,  which  are  called  in  German  the  Bunter  sandstein 
  Muschelkalk,  and  Keuper.