stratigraphy
Americannoun
noun
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stratig. the study of the composition, relative positions, etc, of rock strata in order to determine their geological history
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archaeol a vertical section through the earth showing the relative positions of the human artefacts and therefore the chronology of successive levels of occupation
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In designing their computer model, Cardenas and his team found a new use for 25-year-old scans of Earth's stratigraphy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
But, says anthropologist John Hawks, a Rising Star team member and co-author of the papers, “The strongest evidence we have is that the burials disrupt the existing stratigraphy in the cave.”
From National Geographic ● Jun. 5, 2023
The dates of the graves, based on stratigraphy and a few scattered objects, closely aligned with the dates of the historically documented battles.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
“When you can have a good control of stratigraphy, you can start dealing with food habits and things like this,” Gadot says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2022
By noting which craters overlap which and other signs of lunar stratigraphy, we can reconstruct the sequence of impact and flooding events of which the production of crater Bruno is perhaps the most recent example.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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