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Lewisian

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Lewisian /luːˈɪsɪən/

▶adjective Geology of or denoting the earlier stage of the Proterozoic aeon in NW Scotland, when the oldest rocks in Britain were deposited.

– origin C19: from the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides (where the chief outcrops of these rocks are found) + -ian.

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