Example Sentences

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"We have everything to learn about Mars by better understanding how these river deposits can be interpreted stratigraphically, thinking about rocks today as layers of sediment deposited over time," Cardenas said.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

That year, 24 working group members co-authored an article, published in the journal Science, announcing that the Anthropocene was “functionally and stratigraphically distinct” from the Holocene.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2019

This potentially habitable environment stratigraphically underlies and is considerably older than the rocks detected earlier in the mission that represent acidic, hypersaline environments that would have challenged even the hardiest extremophiles.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2014

In Iowa, a state that is flat and stratigraphically uneventful, it tends to be comparatively serene.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

But I think it will be no less plain to any one who has had anything to do with Geology and Paleontology that the great mass of fossils is to be most conveniently arranged stratigraphically.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry