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biostratigraphy

[ bahy-oh-struh-tig-ruh-fee ]

noun

  1. a branch of geology dealing with the differentiation of sedimentary rock units on the basis of the fossils they contain.


biostratigraphy

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  1. 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.
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Puckett, T. M. Santonian–Maastrichtian planktonic foraminiferal and ostracode biostratigraphy of the northern Gulf Coastal Plain, USA.

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That technique is known as biostratigraphy, and it is typically much less accurate than methods such as uranium-lead dating.

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Their method, known as biostratigraphy, allows geologists to assign relative ages to rocks based on the types of fossil creatures found within them.

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This is because the rocks have been dated using only biostratigraphy, a process in which paleontologists compare the fossils preserved in a rock unit of uncertain age with rock units of known age that preserve similar fossils.

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