Examples of stratigraphy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 While the saga of HS2 is still being written, those small finds might resonate as much with the public as the discoveries of icons, like Matthew Flinders, whose life stories are embedded in the UK’s ever-changing stratigraphy. — Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020 And so stratigraphy — the study of layers (strata) of rock in relation to each other — was born. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2019 In stratigraphy, archaeologists assume that sites undergo stratification over time, leaving older layers beneath newer ones. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 28 June 2019 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 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

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