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homotaxis Geol.|-ˈtæksɪs|
[irreg. f. Gr. ὁµο- homo- + τάξις arrangement. The Gr. formation would be *ὁµοταξία homotaxy.]
The condition of being homotaxial; the relation of strata having the same relative position in the geologic series, or of the similar forms of life occurring in such strata.
1862Huxley Anniv. Addr. Geol. Soc. in Q. Jrnl. XVIII. p. xlii, For Geology (which after all is only the anatomy and physiology of the earth) it might be well to invent some single word (such as ‘homotaxis’, similarity of order), in order to express an essentially similar idea [i.e. to ‘homology’ in anatomy]. Ibid. p. xlvi, The mischief of confounding that ‘homotaxis’ or ‘similarity of arrangement’ which can be demonstrated, with ‘synchrony’ or identity of date, for which there is not a shadow of a proof, under the one common term of ‘contemporaneity’. 1870Ibid. XXVI. p. xliii, The use of the term ‘homotaxis’ instead of ‘synchronism’ has not, so far as I know, found much favour in the eyes of geologists. 1883Nature 18 Jan. 262 It cautions the student against the confusion of geological synchrony with stratigraphical homotaxis. |