Stratigraphic Sentence Examples

The subject will be treated in its biological aspects, because the relations of palaeontology to historical and stratigraphic geology are more appropriately considered under the article Geology.

Observing for himself (1794-1800) the stratigraphic value of fossils, he began to distinguish the great Mesozoic formations of England (1801).

Cuvier (1769-1832) is famous as the founder of vertebrate palaeontology, and with Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847) as the author of the first exact contribution to stratigraphic geology.

He proposed the term " mutations " for the minute progressive changes of single characters in definite directions as observed in successive stratigraphic levels.

More recent analysis has shown, however, that certain modifications observed within the same stratigraphic level are really grades of mutations which show divergences comparable to those found in successive levels.

Metamorphosed sedimentary rocks are widely distributed in the schistose series, but they are distinctly subordinate to the meta-ignecius rocks, and they are so highly metamorphic that stratigraphic methods are not usually applicable to them.

This excursion is important as it resulted in the first detailed international stratigraphic correlation, which was published by Buckland two years later.

This is not demonstrable from existing stratigraphic relations but can be established by 14C dating.

This project will involve detailled field studies of the sedimentary composition, palaeocurrent analysis, stratigraphic breaks, unconformities, and sedimentary facies.

But they are poor at defining stratigraphy and hence at finding fields resident in stratigraphic traps.

This page includes a conventional geologic map of the region and a map that characterizes the assemblage of stratigraphic units as distinct terranes.

The differences in lava composition between the stratigraphic groups affect the average seismic velocity of each group.

Locally both the sedimentary and igneous parts of the group have been highly metamorphosed; but as a rule the alteration of the sedimentary portions has not gone so far that stratigraphic methods are inapplicable to them, though in some places detailed study is necessary to make out their structure.

Not only is it extensive in area, but the stratigraphic break is very great, as shown by (I) the excess of metamorphism of the lower group as compared with the upper, and (2) the amount of erosion suffered by the older group before the deposition of the younger.

As a result of this emergence the stratigraphic break between the Ordovician and the Silurian is one of the greatest in the whole Palaeozoic group.

The Pliocene system stands in much the same stratigraphic relation to the Miocene as the Miocene does to the Eocene.