We remind our special meetings during Strati 2015, in Graz: Wednesday, 22 July 2015, from 17.00 to 17.45, in Aula: Meeting of the Working Group on the Bartonian GSSP. Wednesday, 22 July 2015, at 17.45 in Aula: Meeting of the ISPS subcommission. Thursday, 23 July 2015, from 8.45 to 15.45 in Aula: Session “Major events […]
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At the forthcoming Strati 2015 meeting in July, ICS will award two prizes, the Digby McLaren Medal and the ICS Medal, awarded to outstanding geoscientists every four years. The first awards were made at the 32nd IGC in Florence, 2004; the second and third at the 33rd and 34th IGC in Oslo, 2008 and in Brisbane, […]
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Bartonian Working Group Field Meeting There is a field trip scheduled to visit the sea-cliffs of Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to study the Bartonian strata at Barton (unit stratotype), Alum Bay (parastratotype) and Hengistbury Head in October 2015. Eexact dates will be communicated after we complete risk assessments because of requirements of […]
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The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Selandian Stage is defined in the Zumaia section (Spain) at an abrupt change in lithology (base of Itzurun Formation), which coincides with the onset of a negative carbonate carbon isotope shift. However, this lithological change is not always very well expressed in other […]
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The current available Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZs) calibration based on larger foraminifera is now being improved for the Paleogene Period. In a recently published study (Rodríguez-Pintó et al. 2013) on the San Pelegrín section in the External Sierras, new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic information from the Southwestern Pyrenean basin are shown, where the larger thickness of […]
Chairwoman: Laia Alegret (University of Zaragoza, Spain) laia@unizar.es Secretary: Gabriela de Jesús Arreguín-Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico) arreguing@uabc.edu.mx Former Chairman: Michael A. Kaminski (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia) kaminski@kfupm.edu.sa The scope of the Working group is to contribute to the main objectives of ISPS by studying deep-water benthic […]
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The main goal of the International Geological Field trip in Armenia held between 24 August and 8 September, 2014, was the revision of stratigraphically important larger benthic foraminifera (LBF), planktonic foraminifera (PF) and nannofossil datums in accordance with modern view on their taxonomy and biostratigraphic importance, along with obtaining of new sedimentological and magnitostratigraphic results […]
Reasons for a name Born in 1811 (of Swiss origin) near Frankfurt, in Germany, Édouard Desor fled to Paris around 1832 and there started a geological career, coming under the influence of Élie del Beaumont. With Lous Agassiz, Desor had a key role in the study of glacial phenomena, but is also remembered for his stratigraphic […]