International Commission on Stratigraphy

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Introduction

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) is an organ of the International Union of Geological Sciences dedicated to the correlation and standardization of global stratigraphy. Its six statutary scientific goals are:

  • the establishment and publication of a standard and global geologic time scale and the preparation and publication of global correlation charts, with explanatory notes,
  • the compilation and maintenance of a stratigraphic data base center for the global earth sciences,
  • the unification of regional chronostratigraphic nomenclature by organizing and documenting stratigraphic units on a global data base,
  • the promotion of education in stratigraphic methods, and the dissemination of stratigraphic knowledge,
  • the evaluation of new stratigraphic methods and their integration into a multidisciplinary stratigraphy, and
  • the definition of principles of stratigraphic classification, terminology and procedure and their publication in guides and glossaries.


Link

Homepage of the ICS

HAJ090128

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