How to Use stratigraphy in a Sentence

stratigraphy

noun

• And so stratigraphy — the study of layers (strata) of rock in relation to each other — was born.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2019
• And the stratigraphy at the site is unclear, raising questions about whether the artifacts are as old as the soil they were embedded in.
  — Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
• Based on their location within the stratigraphy, Green believes that these bones date to the medieval period.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• On top, a textured block that looks like it was chiseled out of Greece’s stratigraphy blends into the land and contains the attic, office space, and an expansive terrace.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 27 June 2019
• The goal was to better understand the area’s stratigraphy, or rock layers, and to find a way to accurately date ancient lake sediments.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2021
• Students and faculty have to be able to ski across glaciers all day with heavy packs, dig snow pits to observe the density and stratigraphy at varying depths, and collect snowmelt on tarps for drinking water.
  — Scott Yorko, Popular Mechanics, 12 Sep. 2018
• Their technique could allow other art historians to study the stratigraphy of paintings in the same way that seismologists study the structure of underground rock formations.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• Finkelstein spent a year preparing for Megiddo, poring over stratigraphy and chronological charts.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• An electromagnetic pulse is directed into the ground, and any objects or layering (stratigraphy) will be detectable in the reflections picked up by a receiver, just like regular radar.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2020
• Since Charles Darwin’s time, paleontology—especially the study of the marine invertebrates that make up most of the record—involved descriptive tasks such as classifying or correlating fossils with layers of the Earth (known as stratigraphy).
  — David Sepkoski, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
• Researchers used techniques including radiocarbon dating, stratigraphy and ceramic typology to determine that people buried him in around 726 A.D., the same year workers built the hieroglyphic staircase, notes Notimerica.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Wheeler mentions a couple specialties by name — stratigraphy and geomorphology.
  — Brian Romans, WIRED, 28 May 2008
• In stratigraphy, archaeologists assume that sites undergo stratification over time, leaving older layers beneath newer ones.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 28 June 2019
• The city’s geological stratigraphy has been repeatedly convulsed, metamorphosed under spectacular pressures.
  — Greg Woolf, WSJ, 29 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024