a. [f. STRATIGRAPHY: see -GRAPHIC. Cf. F. stratigraphique.] = next.
1877. Le Conte, Elem. Geol. (1879), 401. The lower portion is very barren of fossils, and this means of correcting the stratigraphic conclusion was at first nearly wanting.
1880. Nature, 22 Jan., 290/1. Stratigraphic observations on the precarboniferous formation of Valtellina and Calabria.
1884. American, VIII. 300. Geography and Stratigraphic Geology.
1896. J. P. Smith, in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., Nov., 222. The absence of a paleontologic or stratigraphic break was a sufficient reason for calling the beds in question Upper Coal Measures rather than Permian.
transf. 1912. Man, XII. 134. Throughout the Old World the careful study of quaternary implements, and stratigraphic analysis of the conditions accompanying the different types, almost always make it possible to date a quaternary industry by the typical forms contained in it.
