Lias Explained

Lias may refer to:

Geology

• Lias Group, a lithostratigraphic unit in western Europe
  • Lias Formation, a geologic formation in France
  • Lias (period), the 19th-century name for the Early Jurassic epoch, named after certain rocks of the era

People

• Godfrey Lias, British author
• Mohd Shamsudin Lias (born 1953), Malaysian politician
• Lias Andersson (born 1998), Swedish hockey player

Other uses

• Lias (journal), title of the Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources
• Lias, Gers, a commune of the Gers département in France
• LIAS (gene), a gene that in humans encodes the protein lipoic acid synthetase

See also

• Lyas, a commune in southern France
• Lia (disambiguation)