2015
DOI: 10.12789/geocanj.2015.42.072
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Logan Medallist 3. Making Stratigraphy Respectable: From Stamp Collecting to Astronomical Calibration

Abstract: The modern science of stratigraphy is founded on a nineteenth-century empirical base – the lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of basin-fill successions. This stratigraphic record comprises the most complete data set available for reconstructing the tectonic and climatic history of Earth. However, it has taken two hundred years of evolution of concepts and methods for the science to evolve from what Ernest Rutherford scornfully termed “stamp collecting” to a modern dynamic science characterized by an array o… Show more

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