Tzekwei
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- enPR: dzûʹgwāʹ
Proper noun
editTzekwei
- Alternative form of Zigui
- 1945, Journal of Paleontology[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:
- The same formation is shown farther east on the Yangtze at Tzekwei district (=Kweichow Fu) in western Hupeh and on the Taning-ho where it was named the Kweichow formation by Willis and Blackwelder.
- 1990, Frederic L. Holmes, “Li Siguang”, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography[3], volume 18, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 553:
- During a vacation in 1923, Li and his assistant, Zhao Yazeng (Y. T. Chao), investigated the geology of the Yangtze Valley from Ichang to Tzekwei, which subsequent geologists have classified as belonging to the Paleozoic stratigraphy of central China.
Translations
editZigui — see Zigui