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stratigraphies

stratigraphies is the plural of stratigraphy.

Meaning of stratigraphy

Noun

stratigraphy (countable and uncountable, plural stratigraphies)

  1. The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
    • The study of stratigraphy was at this point in its infancy, but it was already understood that different layers of rocks had been formed during different periods.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 40
  2. The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.

Questions about stratigraphies

What is stratigraphies the plural of?
Stratigraphies is the plural of stratigraphy.

Words near stratigraphies in the dictionary

  1. stratigrapher
  2. stratigraphers
  3. stratigraphic
  4. stratigraphical
  5. stratigraphically
  6. stratigraphies
  7. stratigraphist
  8. stratigraphists
  9. stratigraphy
  10. stratimetry
  11. stratinomic

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