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GSA Special Papers
The Web of Geological Sciences: Advances, Impacts, and Interactions
Author(s)
Marion E. Bickford
Marion E. Bickford
Department of Earth Sciences, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1070, USA
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Geological Society of America

Volume
500
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© 2013 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813725000
Publication date:
September 01, 2013
Book Chapter
Sophisticated stratigraphy
Author(s)
Andrew D. Miall
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada
Andrew D. Miall
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Published:September 01, 2013
Stratigraphy is the key to the understanding of Earth history. “Sophisticated stratigraphy” is the science that is now being practiced. It refers to the new tools and new forms of interpretation that are becoming increasingly possible through the development of new concepts and the application of advanced analytical techniques. Refinement of the geological time scale is an essential part of this work. Improvements in methods of radiometric dating, chemostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy are ongoing and have been joined by new concepts of cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology. The modern stratigraphic record has been systematized by the application of the concept of the...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- absolute age
- basin analysis
- biostratigraphy
- chemostratigraphy
- chronostratigraphy
- correlation
- cyclostratigraphy
- Deep Sea Drilling Project
- event stratigraphy
- facies
- geochronology
- geophysical methods
- interpretation
- lithostratigraphy
- magnetostratigraphy
- numerical models
- paleo-oceanography
- paleoclimatology
- reflection methods
- sea-level changes
- sedimentation
- sedimentation rates
- seismic stratigraphy
- sequence stratigraphy
- standardization
- stratigraphy
- stratotypes
- time scales
- astrochronology
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