Wernerian

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

  Wernerian \Wer*ne"ri*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and
     geologist, who classified minerals according to their
     external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata
     of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water;
     designating, or according to, Werner's system.


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