1. Plural of homotaxis; the correspondence of rock strata or fossils in different locations that are of similar age or character, though not necessarily formed under identical conditions.
Usage: geology; technical

Examples

• Geologists use homotaxes to correlate rock layers across different continents.
• The homotaxes of these fossil-bearing formations suggest they were deposited during the same geological period.
• Identifying homotaxes helps paleontologists establish a timeline of evolutionary change.
• The concept of homotaxes is fundamental to stratigraphic correlation in modern geology.