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Biostratigraphy
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Stratigraphy which assigns ages of rock strata by using fossils
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Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them. The primary objective of biostratigraphy is correlation, demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period of time as another...

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Stratigraphy
Paleontology
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Stratigraphy
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