neostratotype

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stratotype designated after the holostratotype as a replacement for it (in the case of it being rendered inaccessible to geologists) to describe a stratigraphic unit.

Word forms

neostratotype neostratotypes

Etymology

From neo- + stratotype.

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