biostratigraphy

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ stratigraphy

Noun

biostratigraphy (uncountable)

(biology, geology) The study of the stratigraphic distribution of fossils.
- 2000, Richard Fortey, ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’, London Review of Books, vol. 22 no. 13:
  It is these ordinary animals that have helped science cope with the problems of Deep Time […] and it is astonishing that the biostratigraphy based on them doesn’t merit a mention.

Translations

the study of the stratigraphic distribution of fossil

Catalan: biostratigrafia (ca) f
Finnish: biostratigrafia

Irish: bithstratagrafaíocht f
Italian: biostratigrafia f

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