In the next instalment of the Archaeology 101 set of videos, I eat Jell-O to explain stratigraphy!! Stratigraphy is super ...

This post reviews some fundamental concepts of stratigraphy that are discussed in a 1964 GSA Bulletin paper by Harry Wheeler. At the same time, it is an essay about my own quest to really ...

I finally found made some time to finish the second installment of the Theoretical Stratigraphy series. The first installment looked at a paper from 1964 and dealt with the concept of baselevel as ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Arduino, the man behind modern stratigraphy It was through a letter dated March 30, 1579 that Giovanni Arduino announced the four orders that form the basis of stratigraphic chronology. Join A.S ...