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Biostratigraphy, a Common card
Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,800
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Biostratigraphy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Biostratigraphy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For example, one section might have been made up of clays and marls, while another has more chalky ______.
Answer
limestones. For example, one section might have been made up of clays and marls, while another has more chalky limestones. From the Biostratigraphy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Community card poker. Community card poker 22,000 · Biostratigraphy 9,800 · Mark W. Michael Unit 7,100 · National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina 4,600 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The primary objective of biostratigraphy is correlation, demonstrating that a particular horizon in one geological section represents the same period of time as another horizon at a different section.
- Fossils within these strata are useful because sediments of the same age can look completely different, due to local variations in the sedimentary environment.
- For example, one section might have been made up of clays and marls, while another has more chalky limestones.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Biostratigraphy article was read about 9,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Biostratigraphy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ScottRobertAnselmo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
