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By P.J. Harries

This quantity delves right into a spectrum of theoretical in addition to utilized features of high-resolution stratigraphic techniques in paleontology. It explores how more and more exact wisdom of the fossil checklist can increase our realizing of the evolution of existence in the world and likewise permits geoscientists to deal with a huge diversity of vital evolutionary and environmental questions during this enviornment.

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This suggests that the common length for many diastems is more than just a few centuries. Climatic variability related to geographic position also can influence duration of diastems. The range of intervals between repeated storms noted in Table 2 is actually the variation observed at different locations from subtropical to cool temperate latitudes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of North America (Abbott, 1996). The one to two orders of magnitude difference between the most frequent and least frequent likelihood of recurrence of hurricanes suggests that a similar variability in duration of diastems could be associated with geographic setting as well.

Consequently, paleontological completeness often may be higher than stratigraphic completeness, and the average estimates of parameters obtained from fossils may be more representative of their true long-term, average values than is suggested by the sporadic nature of depositional events. 4. Despite some differences in underlying secular factors, the existing data suggest that depositional and stratigraphic resolution both have decreased through the Phaneorozoic.

Also, longer stratigraphic sections, are likely to include substantial intervals barren of fossils, and consequently, one may expect that, at coarser time scales, stratigraphic completeness should improve relative to depositional completeness. 5, both depositional and stratigraphic resolution may have changed notably through time. The two secular trends have not been controlled by exactly the same suite of factors and, thus, need not have varied necessarily in perfect concert. Nevertheless, the existing data suggest that the duration of diastems and the scale of temporal mixing both have increased through the Phanerozoic.

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