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biostratigraphy

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bi·o·stra·tig·ra·phy  (b-str-tgr-f)
n.
The study of the spatial and temporal distribution of fossil organisms, often interpolated with radiometric, geochemical, and paleoenvironmental information as a means of dating rock strata.
biostratigraphy  (b-str-tgr-f)
The study and categorization of rock strata based on their fossil content and distribution. Biostratigraphic data are often considered together with radiometric and paleoenvironmental data as a means of dating rock strata. Compare lithostratigraphy.


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The occurrence of each species is pinned to a generalized stratigraphic section to produce a biostratigraphy consisting of six successive "faunas" that are quasi-biozones.
Early Silurian Trilobites of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada by Pratt, Brian R. / Geoscience Canada
The known radiocarbon age is given as [approximately equal to] 11,000 BP, based on association with Clovis culture artifacts, and biostratigraphy [60].
The remarkable metrological history of radiocarbon dating [II] by Currie, Lloyd A. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Unless you can correlate sea levelchanges very precisely with biostratigraphy and be convinced that they're the same age in all sorts of different basins, you have no basis to think that sea level change in those basins is controlled by one process,' says Miall.
Sea cycle clock by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
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