stratigraphy
ஸ்ட்ராடிகிராபி
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The sixty pages on palaeontology emphasize geology and stratigraphy and chiefly illustrate trilobites.
the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship to the geological time scale.
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Despite the relatively coherent chronological 'stratigraphy' demonstrated at the ice patches, temporal gaps are evident.
A series of new findings are now available, which permit the general Jurassic 'stratigraphy' of Jabal Akhdar to be significantly refined.
Due to the cave's deep, complex 'stratigraphy' , the geological context of associated material culture has been particularly challenging to interpret.
Tertiary 'stratigraphy' throws considerable light on landform and river development.
Several other interruptions within the Cenozoic 'stratigraphy' of the Zagros region have long been attributed to epirogeny.
Oscillating reactions are thought to play key roles in biological morphogenesis and geologic 'stratigraphy' .
At the museum, Cooper worked in contact with U.S. Geological Survey paleontologists whose concerns were brachiopods and Lower Paleozoic 'stratigraphy' .
The ophiolite contains a complete igneous 'stratigraphy' of serpentinized ultramafics, gabbro, sheeted dykes and pillow lavas, as described by Moores.
This initial 'stratigraphy' is used as the platform to investigate the lava flow faciès distribution in more detail and from there to construct a 3D geological model of the lava field heterogeneity.
Completing the exhibitions is a diorama of the geology of the area north of Johannesburg, the Magaliesburg area, that shows details of the region's topography, geology, and 'stratigraphy' .
The geologic setting and 'stratigraphy' of the Cape Phillips Formation were noted by MacDonald.
The relative chronology derived from the radar 'stratigraphy' clearly shows that the dune has migrated from east to west.
The volcanic 'stratigraphy' , consisting dominantly of flood basalts with interbedded pyroclastic deposits, is well-exposed in East Greenland.
With the new discipline of 'stratigraphy' to hand, geological maps of both practical and academic value could be, and were, produced by surveyors and scholars towards the end of the eighteenth century.
Although Lower Cambrian 'stratigraphy' remains in a state of some uncertainty, therefore, it is possible at present to present a provisional view of the sequence of events in at least some areas of the world.
Lysons did not fully understand 'stratigraphy' , and he mistook the date of the villa.
The geological mapping allowed a detailed revision of the regional 'stratigraphy' .
Recent work on Upper Cretaceous sequence 'stratigraphy' in European basins has demonstrated that chalks provide valuable information on short- and long-term sea-level change.
Conversely, there is during this time interval a general scarcity of erupted igneous rocks that can be reliably tied into relative 'stratigraphy' .
But unless you have already mastered vertebrate anatomy, Mesozoic 'stratigraphy' , and phylogenetic analysis, it's probably not the place to begin.
A second constraint on the timescale of canyon filling relates to the cyclic 'stratigraphy' documented at the Umberatana syncline example.
In this study we concentrate on the field relations and 'stratigraphy' of the pyroclastic deposits within the lower volcanics.
The overlying Pliocene reflections display a regular layer-cake 'stratigraphy' of downwarped reflections defining a U-shaped depression.
Nearly three hundred years later, the rediscovery and elaboration of these principles would make possible modern 'stratigraphy' and geological mapping.
you can find materials at the surface which are samples from the deeper 'stratigraphy'
Recent developments in Pleistocene 'stratigraphy' have enabled a better correlation to be made of terrestrial sequences with the much more complete marine sequences.
Responding to Knight, he referred to stratigraphy as ‘the heart of geology’, and maintained that 'stratigraphy' and paleontology were mutually dependent.
Inspiration is gained from the actions of the archaeologist, using 'stratigraphy' as a recording practice, that records spacio-temporal paradigms.
The late Mesozoic and Cenozoic 'stratigraphy' of northern Chile is shown in Figure 3.
The up-to-date 'stratigraphy' and earlier radiometric dates on these and other Late Precambrian rocks of this area are given in Pharaoh & Gibbons.
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