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Since 1989 the CBEP conference series has been a venue for a self-organized community of researchers to share and discuss the latest and most innovative ideas about Paleogene Earth systems. Following on the very successful Snowbird, Utah conference of 2017, CBEP 12 will be the next installment of this series, hosted at MARUM – Center […]
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 […]
The GSSP for the base of the Thanetian in the Zumaia section was stolen last spring. A new one was put in place during the meeting on the International Commission on Geoheritage, in November 2021.
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.