stratification

Definition

The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.

Etymology

From stratum + -ification.

Example Sentences

• "He has misunderstood the English excavators in regard to the stratification of Knossos. He has wrongly imagined that the West Court of Knossos and a great part of the whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded and partly covered over by a later structure, contemporary with the supposed mainland Achæan type of Megaron at Phæstos that is now proved to be no Megaron at all."