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SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY [2 records]

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Record 1 2022-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

Sequence stratigraphy is a type of stratigraphy that deals with the description, interpretation, classification, and nomenclature of sedimentary rocks based on their stratal stacking patterns and their stratigraphic relations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

La stratigraphie séquentielle vise à étudier, dans un cadre chronologique, la nature et la géométrie des sédiments fossiles. Elle permet de reconstituer l’histoire du remplissage des bassins sédimentaires, d’étudier les causes qui agissent sur la sédimentation, ou encore de prédire la disposition des roches qui ont pu piéger le pétrole.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

The branch of stratigraphy that interprets geologic history by determining the age and time sequence of the Earth's rock strata...

OBS

Some geologists regard chronostratigraphy as essentially identical to biostratigraphy, while others insist on a formal separation of the concepts involved, regarding biostratigraphy as simply one method of calibrating chronostratigraphic scales.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
DEF

Stratigraphie basée sur des divisions caractérisées par des ensembles de couches.

OBS

Suivant que les subdivisions représentent une durée (chronologie) ou une succession stratigraphique (chronostratigraphie) les termes employés sont quelque peu différents [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geología
DEF

Parte de la estratigrafía que relaciona la disposición de los estratos con su edad geológica.

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