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Definition of Intercalations
1. intercalation [n] - See also: intercalation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intercalations
Literary usage of Intercalations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ovid: Selections for the Use of Schools by Ovid (1877)
"The intercalations which we do find described by Macrobius, Censorinus, and
Plutarch, and which were certainly in use at the time of the Julian reform, ..."
2. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"... the basins in question are exceptional intercalations. His attempt to establish
a stratigraphical sequence by the coordination of beds so local must, ..."
3. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1906)
"This zone includes five groups of coal seams; in the three lower of these marine
intercalations occur similar to those observed by F. Roemer in upper ..."
4. The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern Geology by Robert Davies Roberts (1893)
"And it also becomes less pure with intercalations of thin sandy beds. Here again
we have evidence of an approach to an old shore line, and there can be ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1892)
"In the Survey Memoir of the Yorkshire Coal-field some good examples of the
complicated intercalations of shale and sandstone are given (see pp. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Now the Gregorian rule gives 87 intercalations in 400 years ; 400 years therefore
contain 365 x 400 + 97, that ¡a, 146097 days; and consequently one year ..."
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