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STRATI 2019

Following a highly-successful 1st meeting held in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013 and a 2nd held in Graz (Austria) in 2015, the 3rd International Congress on Stratigraphy will be held in Italy, from 2 to 5 July 2019. The congress venue is Milano, in the historical building of the Università degli Studi di Milano, but the […]

IPC5 – The 5th International Palaeontological Congress

The IPC is organised every four years under the auspices of the International Palaeontological Association (www.ipa-assoc.org). After Sydney (Australia) in 2002, Beijing (China) in 2006, London (United Kingdom) in 2010, and Mendoza (Argentina) in 2014, it will convene in Paris (France) on 9th – 13th July, 2018. ORGANIZATION The organizing structure is the CR2P (Centre […]

Chattian GSSP: Golden Spike hammered

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 […]

Golden Spike of the Chattian Stage

Ceremony for Golden Spike of the Global Stratotype Section and Point of the base of the Chattian Stage May 13, 2017 After years of work, it is with great pleasure that we finally announce that the International Commission of Stratigraphy (ICS) approved, ratified in September 2016 by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) at […]

Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2017

Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2017 (CBEP 2017), the next installment of the CBEP series, following on the very successful Ferrara conference of 2014, will be held from September 4-7 at Snowbird Resort, Utah. Researchers worldwide are invited to present papers on the Paleogene and the immediately adjacent Late Cretaceous and Miocene in […]

35th IGC – It is time for Africa!

The 35th International Geological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, between 28 August and 4 September 2016. The event will be held in the acclaimed Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, the “Mother City of South Africa”. Cape Town, with its beautiful setting on the southern tip of Africa, boasts Table […]

Priabonian of the Urtsadzor section (Armenia)

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 status of subseries and subepochs

Although sub-series/sub-epochs are not recognized as formal units by the ICS, they are tolerated in recognition of their widespread use. For completeness of information it is useful to clarify how they map on to the formal Stages/Ages. In setting this out it is important to be clear that no attempt is being made here to […]