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Carnic, a.|ˈkɑːnɪk|
[ad. L. Carnicus, f. Carni, name of a Celtic people of upper Italy: see -ic.]
1. Carnic Alps [tr. L. alpes Carnicae], a range of mountains extending along the border between Austria and Italy.
1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. I. iii. xxv. 71 These rivers of speciall name, and navigable, run into Danubius, Draus with more violence out of the Noricke Alpes; and Saus out of the Carnicke Alpes more gently. 1802J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 364 The Julian, or Carnic Alps, (now called Birnbaumer Wald,) which divide Carinthia from Italy. a1977D. Wheatley Time has Come (1979) III. xxii. 213 Force the Ljubljana gap through the Carnic Alps. 1989Nature 5 Jan. 39 A 330-metre core drilled through the marine Permian/Triassic boundary in the Carnic Alps of Austria allows closely correlated studies of geochemistry [etc.].
2. Geol. Also Karnic. [ad. G. karnisch (coined by E. von Mojsisovics 1869, in Verhandl. d. K. K. Geol. Reichsanstalt (Vienna) iv. 65).] = *Carnian a. 2. Also absol. Now rare.
1897Jrnl. Geol. V. 510 The writer remembers once collecting numerous Ceratites in the Karnic limestone of the California Trias. 1948R. L. Sherlock Permo-Triassic Formations ii. 256 Mytilus (?) problematicus marks a very constant horizon about the middle of the Carnic in South Island. |