stratigraphistn.
/strəˈtɪɡrəfɪst/, U.S. /strəˈtɪɡrəfəst/ Geology and Archaeology.
= stratigrapher n.
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1863 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 86 366 This distinguished stratigraphist has been very unfortunate;..having missed the main feature of the conspicuously marked structure he so carefully searched for.
1879 W. Keeping Fossils Upware & Brickhill (1883) 27 The value of the species is thereby..considerably increased both to the Naturalist and Stratigraphist.
1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 359 A stratigraphist familiar with only a small part of the region.
1956 Iraq 18 5 Such tunnelling is of course disastrous to the stratigraphist because it removes..illuminating evidence.
2012 C. Spence tr. S. Steyer Earth before Dinosaurs i. 40 Together with paleontologists, sedimentologists, stratigraphists, geochemists, and paleoclimatologists, they [sc. taphonomists] analyze fossil assemblages.
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