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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who devotes himself to the study of stratigraphical geology.

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  • noun An expert in stratigraphy.

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Examples

  • Fernand Braudel, the principal conceptual and historical stratigrapher of capitalism, uses enticing imagery to show that market life stands apart but throws out feeders that are grabbed by the tentacles of true capitalist activity occurring at a layer above the market.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Do you have any good radioactive tracers, say from the surface bomb tests, that help identify 'airborne' aerosols with whatever they become by the time a stratigrapher finds them in the mud or ice?

    RealClimate 2009

  • Do you have any good radioactive tracers, say from the surface bomb tests, that help identify 'airborne' aerosols with whatever they become by the time a stratigrapher finds them in the mud or ice?

    RealClimate 2009

  • Do you have any good radioactive tracers, say from the surface bomb tests, that help identify 'airborne' aerosols with whatever they become by the time a stratigrapher finds them in the mud or ice?

    RealClimate 2009

  • Do you have any good radioactive tracers, say from the surface bomb tests, that help identify 'airborne' aerosols with whatever they become by the time a stratigrapher finds them in the mud or ice?

    RealClimate 2009

  • Jan Zalasiewicz is a field geologist, paleontologist and stratigrapher, as well as lecturer of geology and Earth history at the and environments across over half a billion years of geological time, and has published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.

    OUPblog 2009

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