1 - International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: “Neogene/Quaternary Boundary”

Summary

Formation of the project

Research on Project 41, “Neogene/Quaternary Boundary,” was initiated in 1974 under the auspices of the International Geological Correlation Program at the second session of the IGCP board held in Vienna. At the same session, a separate proposal by the Geological Survey of India to define this boundary in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent was included in IGCP Project 41 (Sastry, Chapter 23, this volume).

The first session of the working group for Project 41 was held in Barcelona in September 1974. In attendance were E. Aguirre (Spain), A. Azzaroli (Italy), M. Alekseev (USSR), W. A. Berggren (USA), H. B. S. Cooke (Canada), L. K. Gabunia (USSR), C. Ghenea (Romania), J. Michaux (France), K. V. Nikiforova (USSR), A. Rónai (Hungary), M. V. A. Sastry (India), R. Selli (Italy), K. O. Lange (UNESCO), and R. Gonzales (Spain). At the conclusion of that meeting, it was agreed that the membership of the Project 41 working group would be as follows:

1. K. V. Nikiforova (chairman), Geological Institute, USSR [now Russian] Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

2. E. Aguirre (treasurer), Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain

3. M. Alekseev (secretary), Geological Institute, USSR [now Russian] Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

4. A. Azzaroli, Museum of Geology and Paleontology, Florence, Italy

5. L. Benda, Niedersachsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung, Hannover, [West] Germany

6. W. A. Berggren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

7. H. B. S. Cooke, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

8. L. K. Gabunya, Institute of Paleobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR [now Georgian Academy of Sciences], Tbilisi, Georgia

9. E. D. Gill, University of New South Wales, Canterbury, Australia

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