Annual Report 2005 of the Working Group on Paleogene Stratigraphy of the North Pacific

In summer 2005 the Working Group on North Pacific Paleogene conducted fieldworks in Sakhalin to study
a) Cretaceous-Paleogene transitional beds and b) marine Oligocene sequences.
We collected extensive paleontological and litological material for future investigations.
A large collective monograph describing stratigraphy, paleontology, geological events, paleobiogeography, paleoclimatology of the North Pacific Oligocene is to be published in late 2005 in the series “Biosphere-ecosystem-biota in the Earth past.” The series is devoted to the centenary of Prof. V.V. Menner, former President of ICS and ISPS.
3. A working meeting on North Pacific Paleogene problems was held in In August 2005 in Sakhalin. The meeting outlined a plan of activities for 2006-2007.

Report by Yu. I. Gladenkov, Chairman.