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Why are sediment descriptions and biological names held as abbreviations?

April 26, 2017biological descriptions held names sediment

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Why are sediment descriptions and biological names held as abbreviations?

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To make the parsing (and dictionary lookup) computationally faster, to make long descriptions shorter and more readable, to give flexibility in handling homonyms, and to better distinguish active data from metadata in the structured documents.