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from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, pertaining to a division or substage of the Cretaceous formation in France and Belgium consisting mainly of white chalk and constituting the lowest member of the Senonian: essentially equivalent to the Dover Chalk in the English succession. It lies below the Santonian and above the Angoumian.
- noun The Coniacian division.
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