Annual Report 2011 of the Bartonian/Priabonian Boundary Stratotype Working Group

The multidisciplinary studies on the Alano di Piave section (Veneto region, NE Italy), the potential candidate for defining the GSSP of the Middle/Upper Eocene, equated to the base of the Priabonian Stage, have been presented in an article entitled “Integrated bio-magnetostratigraphy of the Alano section (NE Italy): a proposal for defining the Middle/Late Eocene boundary” (co-authors Agnini, Fornaciari, Giusberti, Grandesso, Rio and Stefani (Univ of Padua), Lanci (Univ. of Urbino), Luciani (Univ. of Ferrara), Muttoni (Univ. of Milan), Palike & Spofforth (Univ. of Southampton, UK).This article was accepted last year by the Geological Society of America Bulletin. The working group is now writing the proposal to present to the Subcommission.

Report by Isabella Premoli Silva, Chairwoman