lecture 2 - reading notes "making the best of a patchy fossil record" Flashcards
1
Q
define stratigraphy
A
a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers
2
Q
define rarefaction
A
a statistical technique that uses subsampling to reduce populations to the same size
3
Q
rock outcrop is…?
A
a reliable predictor of sampling bias in the fossil record
