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 understand ...

Sedimentology explores the origin, transport, deposition and diagenetic alterations of the materials that compose sediments and sedimentary rocks. Stratigraphy investigates how those types of rocks ...

In the next instalment of the Archaeology 101 set of videos, I eat Jell-O to explain stratigraphy!! Stratigraphy is super important, and the backbone of archaeological interpretation, dating and ...

A branch of geology and earth sciences, stratigraphy is a field of study that deals with the arrangement and succession of strata (layers) in the Earth. Additionally, it involves the origin, ...