Associations to the word «Stratigraphy»

Wiktionary

STRATIGRAPHY, noun. (geology) The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
STRATIGRAPHY, noun. (archaeology) the layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.

Dictionary definition

STRATIGRAPHY, noun. The branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope