Stratigraphy investigates how those types of rocks are accumulated and distributed in space and time. The two disciplines are core components to other fields of geoscience research including ...

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The disappearance of this enormous reef system represents a series of events that constitute the greater geologic history of the Michigan Basin ... The Michigan Basin exhibit will focus on generating ...

A successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge, 1990), this volume introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in ...

His research includes work on present-day geological hazards such as debris flows, floods, and gully network growth, as well as research into the long-term formation of landscapes and sedimentary ...

Sequence stratigraphy is the study of sedimentary rock relationships within a chronostratigraphic or geologic-time framework. Its basis is identification of stratal surfaces, regional unconformities ...

The Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science encompasses interdisciplinary teaching and research programs in geomicrobiology, geomorphology, hydrogeology, igneous petrology, isotope ...

Relative dating puts geologic events in chronological order ... The study of strata is called stratigraphy, and using a few basic principles, it is possible to work out the relative ages of ...

The legendary scientist, who lived from 1906-1984, studied and documented the stratigraphy and sedimentation of Colorado Plateau geology, especially the Grand Canyon's Cambrian Tonto Group ...