shows rock units as they were laid down in sequence
(in “historical geology”) the total successive series of assumed periods of time (geological ages) assigned to specific layers of sedimentary rock, based on position and fossil content; many periods & epochs are frequently missing from—or out of order in—local records, making the system unreliable and suspect in substantiating uniformitarianistic interpretation of the geological record (see table)
1. Evolutionary fiction of rock layers that can not be found intact any place in the world. 2. Sediment layed down by Noah's flood.
Subject: Geology A composite diagram combining in chronological order the succession of known strata, fitted together on the basis of their fossils or other evidence of relative or actual age. Reference : Skinner B.J., S.C.Porter & J.Park (2004), DYNAMIC EARTH, 5th edition, Jon Wiley & Sons. [ Pics List