English Explanatory Dictionary

Visean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A subdivision of the Carboniferous period.

Word forms

Visean

Etymology

Named in 1832 by Belgian geologist André Dumont, after the city of Visé in the Belgian province of Liège.

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