Category Archives: Annual Report
As of November 17th 2021, Hans Peter (Hamper) Luterbacher passed away. He was born in 1938 in Basel, Switzerland, and had graduated in 1960 at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Basel University, under the tutoring of Prof. Manfred Reichel. In the early sixties, at Bottaccione (Gubbio), he established with Isabella Premoli Silva the first biostratigraphic […]
Soon out, a unique, global compilation of deep-sea benthic foraminifera as tracers of Paleogene global change: Alegret, L., Arreguín-Rodríguez, G. J., Trasviña-Moreno, C.A., Thomas, E. (in press). Turnover and stability in the deep sea: benthic foraminifera as tracers of Paleogene global change. Global and Planetary Change, in press.
GSSP for Priabonian Stage (Eocene) Definition: The GSSP for the Base of the Priabonian Stage (Paleogene System, Eocene Series) is defined at meter level 63.57 in the Alano section (Alano di Piave, NE Italy: 45°54’51.10″N – 11°55’4.87″E). This level coincides with the base of a prominent crystal tuff layer, the Tiziano bed for which absolute […]
GSSP for Chattian Stage (Oligocene) Definition: The GSSP for the base of the Chattian Stage is the HCO of Chiloguembelina cubensis, lying at meter level 197 in the Monte Cagnero section (SW of Urbania city, Marche Region, Central Italy), in the upper part of the calcareous nannofossil NP24 Zone, in the lower part of dinocyst […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Annual Report 2004 of the South American Regional Committee on Paleogene Stratigraphy Main subjects of research on the Paleogene of South America in 2003-2004 and publications are mentioned below. Reports by V. Barreda, E. Bellosi, L. Bergqvist, H. Duque Caro, R. Marquillas, E. Olivero, S. Casadío, J. Panza, A. Parras, E. Pedrao, M. Quattrocchio, R. […]