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scientific discipline > stratigraphy > event stratigraphy

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event stratigraphy  

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  • The event stratigraphy is stratigraphy making use of all types of events of relatively limited duration in time, and whose nature varies considerably, ranging from the extinction of paleontological species to the study of sedimentary discontinuities. (Adapted from: Moureau M. & Brace G. (2000). Comprehensive Dictionary of Earth Science - Dictionnaire des Sciences de la Terre. Paris, Technip.)

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