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 […]
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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 […]
INA, the International Nannoplancton Association, announces that the 16th INA Conference will be held in Athens, Greece, from 24-27 September 2017. First circular online at the dedicated website INA16.
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The 12th International Conference on Paleoceanography (ICP12) is coming to Utrecht, the beating heart of the Netherlands, from August 29th to September 2nd, 2016. The conference will take place in the Beatrix Theater of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, which is within walking distance of the medieval city center of Utrecht, next to Utrecht Central Train Station (Utrecht CS), […]
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We remind our special meetings during Strati 2015, in Graz: Wednesday, 22 July 2015, from 17.00 to 17.45, in Aula: Meeting of the Working Group on the Bartonian GSSP. Wednesday, 22 July 2015, at 17.45 in Aula: Meeting of the ISPS subcommission. Thursday, 23 July 2015, from 8.45 to 15.45 in Aula: Session “Major events […]
GSSP for Ypresian Stage (Eocene) Definition: The base of the Eocene Series and Ypresian Stage is defined in the DBH Subsection of the Dababiya Section, near Luxor, Egypt, at the base of a lithostratigraphic unit where the initiation of the so-called Carbon Isotope Excursion (CIE) is recorded. Location: The Ypresian GSSP is located at the […]
GSSP for Thanetian Stage (Paleocene) Definition: The base of the Thanetian Stage is defined in the sea-cliff along the main beach of the coastal town Zumaia, Basque Country, northern Spain. The GSSP is about 78m above the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. The GSSP is defined at a level 2.8 m or eight precession cycles above the base […]
GSSP for Selandian Stage (Paleocene) Definition: The base of the Selandian Stage is defined in the sea-cliff along the main beach of the coastal town Zumaia, Basque Country, northern Spain. The GSSP is at the base of the Itzurun Formation about 49m above the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. The best event for global marine correlation is the […]
GSSP for Danian Stage (Paleocene) Definition: The base of the Cenozoic Era, Paleogene System, Paleocene Series and Danian Stage is defined at the reddish layer at the base of the 50 cm thick, dark boundary clay in a tributary of the Oued Djerfane, west of El Kef, Tunisia, where it coincides with the Iridium Anomaly […]