Groups (Stratigraphy)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
חבורות (סטרטיגרפיה)
Name (Latin)
Groups (Stratigraphy)
Name (Arabic)
المجموعات (علم الطبقات)
Other forms of name
Groups (Geology)
Groups of formations (Stratigraphy)
Megagroups (Stratigraphy)
Stratigraphic groups
Supergroups (Stratigraphy)
See Also From tracing topical name
Geology, Stratigraphic
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q824979
Library of congress:
sh 88001988
Sources of Information
- Gloss. geol.(The formal lithostratigraphic unit next in rank above formation)
- Challinor, J. Dict. geol., 1978(A general term for assemblages of any size ... useful (in paleontology, stratigraphy, etc.) ... it has been variously proposed in schemes of nomenclature for stratigraphical categories)
- Web. 3.
- North American Stratigraphic Code, AAPG Bull.:v. 67, no. 5, pp. 858-9 (A group is the lithostratigraphic unit next higher in rank to formation. A supergroup is a formal assemblage of related or superposed groups, or of groups and formations ... named only when their recognition serves a clear purpose)
- Smith, R.A. The lithostratigraphy of the Karoo Supergroup in Botswana, 1984.
- Bates. Gloss. geol.(supergroup, cf. megagroup)
- Dict. geol. terms.