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Stratigraphy

noun
1.
The branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata.





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... regions the predominant strike of the fohae is north and south. The rocks, for convenience classed as pre-Cambrian, occur as several unconformable groups, chiefly developed in the south where alone their stratigraphy has been determined. They are unfossiliferous, and in the absence of undoubted Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian strata in Africa they may be regarded as of older date than any of these formations. The general occurrence of ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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