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STRATIGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stratigraphy mean?
• STRATIGRAPHY (noun)
The noun STRATIGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
Familiarity information: STRATIGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("stratigraphy" is a kind of...):
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Context examples
The team mapped the boundaries of the lava flows from each of the 29 volcanic vents and determined the stratigraphy, or layering, of the flows.
(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)
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