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The New Stratigraphy and its promise for paleobiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Steven M. Holland
Steven M. Holland*
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Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2501. E-mail: stratum@gly.uga.edu
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If your undergraduate experience in stratigraphy was anything like mine, it was overwhelmingly dull. It was all about nomenclature and classification and endless lists of formation names. There were apparently no questions to be asked and the goal of stratigraphy was to devise boxes into which to place all types of geologic data. Notwithstanding the important work of correlation, the perception was that it was the sedimentologists who did the real science, science that focused on the processes of sediment accumulation and their controlling factors. Since then, stratigraphy has undergone a conceptual revolution, and it is necessary to examine how the field has changed and what those advances mean for paleobiology.

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Paleobiology , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Summer 1999 , pp. 409 - 416
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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