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Title: Compare and contrast the basic time-stratigraphic units and their corresponding time units? Give ...
Post by: thebeagle96 on Jan 23, 2018

Compare and contrast the basic time-stratigraphic units and their corresponding time units? Give
  examples of these two types of units. What will be an ideal response?



Title: Compare and contrast the basic time-stratigraphic units and their corresponding time units? Give ...
Post by: premed9 on Jan 23, 2018

The basic time-stratigraphic unit is the System. The basic time unit is the Period. Other timestratigraphic/
time unit pairs are Series/Epoch and Stage/Age. Time-stratigraphic units include all
rocks deposited in the indicated time unit. Time units, in contrast, include all of the time
between time unit boundaries. For example, the Devonian System of rocks was deposited during
the Devonian Period



Title: Compare and contrast the basic time-stratigraphic units and their corresponding time units? Give ...
Post by: thebeagle96 on Jan 23, 2018
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