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Biostratigraphy

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Synonyms

Paleontology; Applied paleontology; Economic micropaleontology.

Paleontology is the study of ancient life and their fossilized remains and therefore is a much broader term than either biostratigraphy or applied paleontology. Applied paleontology denotes the geological applications of paleontology, which biostratigraphy as well as other applications such as paleoenvironmental interpretation. Economic micropaleontology refers specifically to the industrial application of microfossils.

Definition

Biostratigraphy is the application of paleontology for the correlation and age determination of sedimentary rocks. The term biostratigraphy is often used in a broader sense to encompass all applications of paleontology to solve geological problems.

Introduction

Fossils have been used by geologists to correlate sedimentary rocks since the founding of the science of stratigraphy by William Smith during the early 1800s and remain the focus of biostratigraphy. Early stratigraphers recognized...

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