Word.ws English Dictionary

tectonostratigraphy

tectonostratigraphy noun: the stratigraphy of large-scale strata caused by tectonic activity.

Noun

tectonostratigraphy (uncountable)

  1. The stratigraphy of large-scale strata caused by tectonic activity.

Origin of tectonostratigraphy

From tectono- + stratigraphy.

Questions about tectonostratigraphy

What does tectonostratigraphy mean?
Tectonostratigraphy means the stratigraphy of large-scale strata caused by tectonic activity.
What part of speech is tectonostratigraphy?
Tectonostratigraphy is a noun.

Words near tectonostratigraphy in the dictionary

  1. tectonospheres
  2. tectonospheric
  3. tectonostratigraphic
  4. tectonostratigraphical
  5. tectonostratigraphically
  6. tectonostratigraphy
  7. tectonothermal
  8. tectophase
  9. tectophases
  10. tectopontine
  11. tectopulvinar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tectonostratigraphy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tectonostratigraphy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tectonostratigraphy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.