In the presence of Stan Finney, Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), institutional and academic authorities, among which Rodolfo Coccioni coordinator of the Chattian working group, together with students and local people, have attended the Official launch of the GSSP of the Chattian Stage (Oligocene Series), hosted by local, regional and […]
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Ceremony for Golden Spike of the Global Stratotype Section and Point of the base of the Chattian Stage May 13, 2017 After years of work, it is with great pleasure that we finally announce that the International Commission of Stratigraphy (ICS) approved, ratified in September 2016 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) at […]
Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2017 (CBEP 2017), the next installment of the CBEP series, following on the very successful Ferrara conference of 2014, will be held from September 4-7 at Snowbird Resort, Utah. Researchers worldwide are invited to present papers on the Paleogene and the immediately adjacent Late Cretaceous and Miocene in […]
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The 35th International Geological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, between 28 August and 4 September 2016. The event will be held in the acclaimed Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, the “Mother City of South Africa”. Cape Town, with its beautiful setting on the southern tip of Africa, boasts Table […]
INA, the International Nannoplancton Association, announces that the 16th INA Conference will be held in Athens, Greece, from 24-27 September 2017. First circular online at the dedicated website INA16.
A proposal for the definition of the GSSP for the base of the Chattian was submitted, and voted and accepted by 95% of the voting members. The proposal, after correction of a few remarks made by the voting members has been submitted to ICS, for approval during the next IGC 2016.
Upcoming paper in Newsletter on Stratigraphy: Integrated stratigraphy of the Priabonian (upper Eocene) Urtsadzor section, by Laura J. Cotton, Elena Y. Zakrevskaya, Annique van der Boon, Gayane Asatryan, Flora Hayrapetyan, Arsen Israyelyan, Wout Krijgsman, György Less, Simonetta Monechi, Cesare A. Papazzoni, Paul N. Pearson, Anatoly Razumovskiy, Willem Renema, Ekaterina Shcherbinina and Bridget S. Wade, presented […]
Although sub-series/sub-epochs are not recognized as formal units by the ICS, they are tolerated in recognition of their widespread use. For completeness of information it is useful to clarify how they map on to the formal Stages/Ages. In setting this out it is important to be clear that no attempt is being made here to […]
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The 12th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP12) is coming to Utrecht, the beating heart of the Netherlands, from August 29th to September 2nd, 2016. The conference will take place in the Beatrix Theater of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, which is within walking distance of the medieval city center of Utrecht, next to Utrecht Central Train Station (Utrecht CS), […]
The Paleogene section of the Il’pinskii Peninsula in northeastern Kamchatka is a reference section for the North Pacific rim. The marine sedimentary succession, 2500m-thick and ranging from the Paleocene to Oligocene, forms one of the northernmost Paleogene sections in the Pacific to yield Paleogene calcareous plankton. Several studies have been dedicated to the study of […]