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biostratigraphy

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of the spatial and temporal distribution of fossil organisms, often interpolated with radiometric, geochemical, and paleoenvironmental information as a means of dating rock strata.

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  • noun biology, geology The study of the stratigraphic distribution of fossils

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bio- +‎ stratigraphy

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