This article is about the branch of geology. For stratigraphy in archaeology, see Stratigraphy (archaeology).
Study of rock layers and their formation
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks.
Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostratigraphy (lithologic stratigraphy), biostratigraphy (biologic stratigraphy), and chronostratigraphy (stratigraphy by age).
volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostratigraphy (lithologic stratigraphy), biostratigraphy (biologic stratigraphy), and chronostratigraphy...
Sequence stratigraphy is a branch of geology, specifically a branch of stratigraphy, that attempts to discern and understand historic geology through time...
central to the geologic discipline of stratigraphy, and the formation is the fundamental unit of stratigraphy. Formations may be combined into groups...
geologic time is the responsibility of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), a constituent body of the International Union of Geological Sciences...
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the "International Stratigraphic Commission", is a daughter or...
Retrieved 2009-01-18. Saltzman, Matthew R (2002). "Carbon isotope (d13C) stratigraphy across the Silurian-Devonian transition in North America: evidence for...
Chronostratigraphy Glaciology Magnetostratigraphy Sedimentology Sequence stratigraphyStratigraphy 2004 North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (2005)...
Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fundamental and applied aspects of stratigraphy. It was...
eventually became the coal beds characteristic of the Carboniferous stratigraphy evident today. The later half of the period experienced glaciations,...
United States Geological Survey and the International Commission on Stratigraphy regard the term as informal. Because the span of time falling under the...
"Major Divisions". Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy. International Commission on Stratigraphy. Retrieved 25 September 2019. For the top of the...
years ago to the present), as proposed by International Commission on Stratigraphy. The oldest age, the Greenlandian, was characterized by a warming following...
Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years...
stratification such as spits or planums. In his Principles of archaeological stratigraphy Harris first proposed the need for each unit of stratification to have...
ISBN 978-0-486-61708-4. International Commission on Stratigraphy Archived September 20, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. stratigraphy.org Amelin, Y. (2002). "Lead Isotopic...
Seismic stratigraphy is a method for studying sedimentary rock in the deep subsurface based on seismic data acquisition. The term Seismic stratigraphy was...
Meghalayan age is the name given in 2018, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, to the current age or latest geologic age – or uppermost stage of the...
ISBN 9780495011484. Boggs, Sam (2006). Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall. p. 405. ISBN 0131547283...
longer recognized as a formal unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. The span of the Tertiary is subdivided into the Paleocene (66–56 million...
the late 1870s, as optical microscopes improved and the principles of stratigraphy were worked out, Robert Kidston and P. Reinsch were able to examine the...
The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch...
The Flat Landing Brook Formation is a geological formation in Gloucester County of northern New Brunswick, Canada. It consists mostly of volcanic rocks...
Carboniferous period (Stephanian C in European stratigraphy or Gzhelian in international stratigraphy). The following fossils were reported from the formation:...
fossils (graptolites, trilobites, ammonites, ...) in the subfield of the stratigraphy named biostratigraphy. It has been suggested that Eoconodontus notchpeakensis...