stratigraphy

IPA: strætʌgrʌfi

(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.

Examples of "stratigraphy" in Sentences

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.