stratigraphic
- a word derived from stratigraphy.
Example Sentences
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David Lefèvre describes it as "a unique cave system carved by a marine highstand into earlier coastal formations and later filled with sediments that preserved hominin fossils in a secure, undisturbed and undisputable stratigraphic context."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026
Mr Ambekar says the age of the skeleton he and his team found was estimated based on a DNA analysis of its teeth and a stratigraphic study of the excavation site.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
“It would have been rejected 10 years earlier if they had not avoided presenting it to the stratigraphic community for careful consideration.”
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2024
And so most stratigraphic experts have settled on 1950 as the curtain-raiser for the Anthropocene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
Thomas Jefferson removed a slice from a mound on his estate, examined the stratigraphic layers, and announced that Indians had made it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
