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The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the existence of a hierarchy of geologic time extending over some fourteen orders of magnitude, and the importance of time breaks in the sedimentary record.
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Miall, A.D. (2010). Time in Sequence Stratigraphy. In: The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05027-5_13
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