GSSP

English
The golden spike marking the Ediacaran GSSP

Noun

GSSP (plural GSSPs)

  1. (geology) Initialism of Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.
    • 2018 May 2, Mark Carnall, “What is geologic time, and how does it work?”, in The Guardian‎:
      The GSSP for the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Palaeogene is at Oued Djerfane, west of El Kef, Tunisia and is marked with a “golden spike” (Molina et al 2006).

Further reading

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.