Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Peter Gutteridge’s recent Soap Box article (Geoscientist 18 v.3) prompted lively \ndebate in the Letters page about the usefulness of lithostratigraphy. My view is that \ngeoscientists should make full use of all varieties of stratigraphy (lithostratigraphy ; \nsequence stratigraphy; biostratigraphy; chronostratigraphy; seismic stratigraphy; \nmagnetostratigraphy; isotope stratigraphy etc.); they all have their place, dependent \noften on scale, and the availability of data. For practical geologists these tools all \nrelate back to the rock record that is most readily defined by a lithostratigraphical \nframework. It is the powerful combination of these branches of stratigraphy that \nadvances our science and allows us to communicate our ideas and research. In this \nbrief article I highlight the some of the work of the British Geological Survey (BGS) in \nthe field of lithostratigraphy, and the important collaborative links with the GSL \nStratigraphy Commission.
Author: J. H. Powell
Language: English
Subfield: Earth-Surface Processes
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1558859687