chronostratigraphyn.

1961 Rep. 21st Internat. Geol. Congr. 1960 xxv. 12 A major goal of chronostratigraphy is the regional and..world-wide assignment of the rocks of the earth's crust to their proper position with respect to the passage of geologic time.

1970 Earth-Sci. Rev. 6 267 Stratigraphy comprises three major aspects: lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy.

1989 Nature 27 July 296/1 The Specmap project has defined the timing of δ¹⁸0 variations in the ocean of the past 800 kyr, providing the basic chronostratigraphy for late Pleistocene palaeoclimatology.

1954 Compt. Rend. XIX Congrès Géol. Internat. 1952 xiii. 205 Time-stratigraphic (chrono-stratigraphic) units are often used incorrectly with the connotation of a certain lithology or a certain fossil content.

1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 158 ‘Chronostratigraphic zones’ or ‘Chronozones’ are regarded as informal units.

1992 A. G. Dawson Ice Age Earth iv. 45 A major difficulty in the Late Quaternary literature of Canada and the USA is the different chronostratigraphic terminology used in both countries.

1966 Earth-Sci. Rev. 1 5 A three-fold stratigraphical classification—lithostratigraphical, bio-stratigraphical and chronostratigraphical—seems to have been accepted by a majority of stratigraphers.

1979 Nature 18 Jan. 190/1 It is also clear that glaciers reached Poland only during parts of the corresponding chronostratigraphical unit, the Weichselian Stage.