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GEOLOGICAL HORIZON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does geological horizon mean?
• GEOLOGICAL HORIZON (noun)
The noun GEOLOGICAL HORIZON has 1 sense:
1. a layer of rock with a particular composition (especially of fossils); for dating the stratum
Familiarity information: GEOLOGICAL HORIZON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A layer of rock with a particular composition (especially of fossils); for dating the stratum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("geological horizon" is a kind of...):
horizon (a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land)
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