Wikipedia's topic entry on the principle of faunal succession, its documentation by William Smith in England in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and its role as a foundation of biostratigraphy and relative dating.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faunal_succession
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for an uncontested topic definition and history, cross-checked during research against Smith's own biography for the timing of his coal mine and canal survey observations. Sources
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