15th March 2014, 11:43 AM
Marc Berger Wrote:Considering the application of forensic use of Harris with fires, possibly layers of smoke deposited on the ceiling would create an inverted stratigraphy. just wondered what this could be called : invertedstrat, inverlution, cloudstratigraphy....you heard it here first.
Pretty sure Harris discusses this in Principles, or something similar. He certainly dismisses such concepts as reverse stratigraphy. Surely the stratigraphic principles remain the same, the smoke is later than the paint which is deposited after the plaster. If the ceiling falls in onto the ash of the fire at a later point it is a new deposit which is later than the fire. I don't see what is inverted.