In the early 19th century, the mining industry and Industrial Revolution stimulated the rapid development of the stratigraphic column - "the sequence of rock formations arranged according to their order of formation in time."
A inicios do século XIX a industria mineira e a Revolución Industrial estimularon o rápido crecemento do uso de columnas estratigráficas (“a secuencia de formación de rochas disposta segundo a súa orde de formación no tempo.”