Stratigraphy in the USSR

Abstract

Stratigraphy emerged during the differentiation of historical geology, The classic monographs of F. N. Chernyshev on the Devonian of the Urals, S. N. Nikitin on the Jurassic of the central regions are typical stratigraphic works. True, they were not called stratigraphic at that time. They were geological works connected with the geologic map. Stratigraphy existed as an undifferentiated part of geology, and later as a part of historical geology ...