Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each stratigraphic term to its definition.
- Context
- Cut
- Fill
- Harris matrix
- Flowchart of every older/younger relationship on site
- The act of digging, younger than what it truncates
- A single depositional event, one layer, cut, or fill
- Material inside a cut, younger than the cut
Hints
- Separate the deposits from the actions that disturb them.
- One term names the diagram that records all the relationships.
Show the answer
- Context → A single depositional event, one layer, cut, or fill
- Cut → The act of digging, younger than what it truncates
- Fill → Material inside a cut, younger than the cut
- Harris matrix → Flowchart of every older/younger relationship on site
Why
Contexts are the atoms, cuts and fills the verbs, and the Harris matrix the grammar that binds a whole site into one temporal sentence.
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