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stratigraphy Plumb the depths of geologic time. Steno's four laws of stratigraphy Geochronology. Table 20: Stratigraphic Subdivisions of the Cretaceous Period
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Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Orbigny, engraving
Alcide Dessalines d’ Orbigny
French paleontologist
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
German geologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
Amanz Gressly
Swiss geologist
Georg Christian Füchsel
German geologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
John Strachey
British geologist
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
Maurice-Irénée-Marie Gignoux
French geologist

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