ДІАЛЕКТИКА І ТРИ ПАРАДИГМИ СТРАТИГРАФІЇ

From the standpoint of the basic laws of dialectics – negation of negation, unity and struggle of the main opposites of stratigraphy – geological space and geological time – the sequence of appearance and change of three paradigms of stratigraphy is considered. These are the Unified Stratigraphic Scale (USS), the dualistic system of regional and global scales and modern chronostratigraphy. It is shown that the USS and the “dualistic” system are based on the historical dimension of time (geochronology), and chronostratigraphy is based on geoastronomical time independent of history (geochronometry). It is confirmed that the regional biostratigraphic material stratons of the USS and the “dualistic” system are mapped, while the global chronostratons of the modern paradigm, defined solely by age, are artificial and are not mapped. It is concluded that, from the standpoint of dialectics, the appearance and success of the chronostratigraphy paradigm is the result of the absolutization of time in the struggle between opposing concepts – geological space and geological time and in the substitution of historical time (the basis of geochronology) by physical time (chronometry).