The 30th International Geological Congress was held in Beijing, China in August 1997. Leading scientists convened to present their findings and views to the international geological research community. Volume 11 of 26 focuses on stratigraphy. All articles in the proceedings have been refereed and keynote papers have been included in Volume 1. These proceedings aim to present a view of contemporary geology and should be of interest to researchers in the geological sciences.
Multidisciplinary chronostratigraphy, J. Remane; some constraints on the Phanerozoic time-scale, F.M. Gradstein et al; TBO-stratotype system and non-Smith stratigraphy, Wang Naiwen; sequencing, scaling and correlation of stratigraphic events, F.P. Agterberg and F.M. Gradstein; sedimentation gaps in cyclic sequences, W. Schwarzacher; the application of RASC/CASC methods to quantitative biostratigraphic correlation of Neogene in northern South China, Wang Ping and Zhou Di; application of high-resolution stratigraphic correlation approaches to fluvial reservoir, Deng Hongwen et al; carboniferous sequence stratigraphy and oil and gas in Tarim Basin, Northwest China, Jiayu Gu; Neoproterozoic acritarch biostratigraphy of China, Yin Leiming and Yin Chongyu; tremadoc tribolites from the Mungong formation, Weongweol, Korea, D.K. Choi; lower Silurian (Llandovery) rugose coral assemblage zones and their relation with the depositional sequence of Upper Yangtze region, China, Chen Jianqiang and He Xinyi; Tethys - an archipelagic ocean model, Yin Hongfu; an integrated chronostratigraphic scheme for the Permian system, Jin Yugan; high frequence glacio-eustasy and carbon isotope evolution of the Triticites zone in South China, Liu Benpei and Li Rufeng; Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in the neritic facies areas of South China from the view-point of integrative stratigraphy, Wang Xunlian et al; Dicynodon and Late Permian-Triassic Pangea, S.G. Lucas; correlation of the Permian-Triassic boundary in Arctic Canada and comparison with Meishan, China, Ch.M. Henderson and A. Baud; Condonont sequences and their lineages in the Permian-Triassic boundary strata at the Meishan section, South China, Ding Meihua et al; Late Paleozoic deep-water facies in Guangxi, South China and its tectonic implications, Wu Haoruo et al; morphological change of Late Permian radiolaria as seen in pelagic chert sequences, K. Kuwahara; Clastic rocks in Triassic bedded chert of Mino terrane, Central Japan and Samarka terraine, Sikhote-Alin, Russia, S. Kojima et al; holarctic fossil mammals and Paleogene series boundaries, S.G. Lucas; a candidate sectin for the Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary (Apennine Foredeep, South Italy), N.P. Ciaranfi et al; the Plio-Pleistocene diatom record from ODP site 797 of the Japan Sea, I. Koizumi and A. Ikeda; Middle to Late Pleistocene shallow-marine sedimentary and faunal cycles corresponding to the orbital precession or obliquity in the Simosa Group, Boso Peninsula, Central Japan, T. Kamataki and Y. Kondo.