Muschelkalk

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Muschelkalk \Musch"el*kalk`\, n. [G., from muschel shell + kalk
     limestone.] (Geol.)
     A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one
     of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany.
     See Chart, under {Geology}.
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