Questions tagged [stratigraphy]

Stratigraphy is the study of rock strata and their intrepretation in term of absolute or relative age.

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Is the Principle of Original Horizontality a good indicator?

Still reading a course on datation over multiple stratums that may have setting up the Earth's crust, I'm meeting for the first time the principle of original horizontality Steno. Is this theory safe? Logically, if multiple stratums squeeze, the…
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