created sense approved 白垩系/白堊系 · bái'èxì · Cretaceous System — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
白垩系 / 白堊系
bái'èxì
Cretaceous System
The sequence of rock layers formed during the Cretaceous Period, positioned between the Jurassic and Paleogene systems.
白垩 (literal) → 白垩/白堊 · bái'è · chalk 系 (bound) → 系 · xì · system (geology)
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition