stratigraphy
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /stɹəˈtɪɡɹəfi/
Noun
stratigraphy (countable and uncountable, plural stratigraphies)
- (geology) The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 40:
- The study of stratigraphy was at this point in its infancy, but it was already understood that different layers of rocks had been formed during different periods.
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- (archaeology) The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.
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Translations
study of rock layers
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