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allostratigraphies

allostratigraphies is the plural of allostratigraphy.

Meaning of allostratigraphy

Noun

allostratigraphy (usually uncountable, plural allostratigraphies)

  1. (usually) The study and classification of rock strata by their bounding surfaces, such as unconformities and other types of uncomformable contacts that create discontinuities in the rock record.
    • The only example we know is the study of the allostratigraphy of Quaternary terrace deposits in the Polish Carpathians by Zuchiewicz (1988), in which individual mapping units included gravels, solifluction deposits and loess.1996, Cliff Ollier, Regolith, Soils and Landforms, Chichester, West Sussex; […]: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 178

Questions about allostratigraphies

What is allostratigraphies the plural of?
Allostratigraphies is the plural of allostratigraphy.

Words near allostratigraphies in the dictionary

  1. allostimulations
  2. allostimulator
  3. allostimulators
  4. allostimulatory
  5. allostratigraphic
  6. allostratigraphies
  7. allostratigraphy
  8. allosuck
  9. allosucked
  10. allosucking
  11. allosuckling

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