The composition of the various phases within a given sample is a critical record of its formation and evolution.
Site micro-studies are central to the enterprise, emphasizing cultural sediments and the taphonomic record of site formation, preservation, or destruction.
The southern portion of the Venice lagoon contains a relatively thick (up to 20 m) Holocene sedimentary body that represents a detailed record of the formation and evolution of the lagoon.
In fact, Escapa et al. noted that "the fossil record of this formation represents the most completely known biota from the continental Middle to Late Jurassic of the Southern Hemisphere and one of the most complete of the entire world".
A retrospective show is for a visual artist what a memoir is for a writer, a record of self-formation and a hedge against oblivion.
I would like to think that in the enormous databank of some ancient civilisation are records of the formation of our solar system - perhaps even of the galaxy.
A special study of the Luna 24 samples should be undertaken designed to find records of the formation age of the crater on whose rim Luna 24 landed, thus better constraining the age of GB crater.
We used a date of 25 October for wild-salmon spawning, based on records of redd formation in the wild (E. Atkinson, unpublished data).
On the whole, the filling of Yanchang Formation records the processes of formation, expansion, contraction and extinction of a large freshwater lake.
The Oldowan archeological record of the Shungura Formation, Member F (Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia) comprises more than one hundred occurrences distributed within archeological complexes, where multiple small spots were found in association with one or two larger occurrences.
