PECULIAR FEATURES OF TYPIFICATION IN STRATIGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION

Peculiar features of typification in stratigraphy, i.e., the regulatio n of the entitative aspect of a stratigraphic unit and its legalizatio n in the stratotype, were analyzed. These procedures inevitably led to the repudiation of the hierarchical principle in typification, which made the priority principle an obstacle to the elaboration and perfect ion of stratigraphic classification. These peculiar features of typifi cation took shape in parallel with the strengthening of the chronostra tigraphic paradigm. An analogy with biological systematization is used to show a possible way to solve the problem. A revision of the typifi cation system in stratigraphy is proposed to make it similar to that i n biology.