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The branch of geology that deals with the origin, composition, distribution, and succession of layers of sedimentary rock.

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  • Radiocarbon dating was still in the future, so archaeologists used relative methods of dating such as stratigraphy and stone tool typologies to deduce the age of a site.
  • The KT boundary was refined using a range of techniques such as stratigraphy & fossils, various radiometric techniques etc. - kinda like multi-proxies.
  • Geoblogosphere News is a stratigraphy.net project.
  • Now we have the strongest possible evidence: stratigraphy.
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