stratigraphy
IPA: strætʌgrʌfi
noun
- (geology) The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
- (archaeology) The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.
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Examples of "stratigraphy" in Sentences
- The key to this is stratigraphy.
- He specialized in petrology and stratigraphy.
- He is specialized in petrology and stratigraphy.
- The Blue Mountains contain Mesozoic stratigraphy.
- The Kriegar Mountains contain Mesozoic stratigraphy.
- He is considered the father of geology and stratigraphy.
- These events likely caused disturbance of the stratigraphy.
- Stratigraphy is essential to determining the age of objects.
- Olenellina are the earliest trilobites in Cambrian stratigraphy.
- Stratigraphy is the science of sedimentary rock strata or layers.
- The technical name for these layers is strata, and the careful study of them is called stratigraphy.
- TOPO/GRAPHY | An exhibition that investigates the mapping of the relief, stratigraphy and history of land.
- The KT boundary was refined using a range of techniques such as stratigraphy & fossils, various radiometric techniques etc. - kinda like multi-proxies.
- Radiocarbon dating was still in the future, so archaeologists used relative methods of dating such as stratigraphy and stone tool typologies to deduce the age of a site.
- This generation of archaeologists had borrowed the concept of stratigraphy, meaning “stratification,” from geologists who used the term to describe the strata that made up the earth’s crust.
- A stone's throw from the traffic and diversity of nearby Arusha, Tanzania, a village community -- what we might call neighborhood -- is preserved in the distinctly non-urban, tribal traditions which overlay the foundational stratigraphy of East Africa.