Task Groups

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY

Leader: Andreas Strasser, Switzerland, andreas.strasser@unifr.ch
Fritz Hilgen, Netherlands, fhilgen@geo.uu.nl
Philip Heckel, USA, philip-heckel@uiowa.edu

Outline: distributed in ISSC Newsletter 7 (June 2005).
Comments: received and forwarded to the leader. Available in the ISSC archive kept by the secretary Maria Rose Petrizzo.
Full text: distributed in January 2006, comments received.
Paper published: Strasser A., Hilgen F. and Heckel P., 2007. Cyclostratigraphy - concepts, definitions, and applications. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 42(2), p. 75-114.

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY

Leader: Helmut Weissert, Switzerland, helmut.weissert@erdw.ethz.ch
M. Joachimski, Germany, joachimski@geol.uni-erlangen.de
M. Sarnthein, Germany, ms@gpi.uni-kiel.de

Outline: distributed in ISSC Newsletter 9 (June 2006).
Comments: received and distributed in ISSC Newsletter 10 (November 2006)
Full text: distributed in appendix to ISSC Newsletter 11 (June 2007), comments received.
Paper published: Weissert H., Joachimski M., Sarnthein M., 2008. Chemostratigraphy. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 42(3), p. 145-179.

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY

Leader: Cor Langereis, The Netherlands, langer@geo.uu.nl
Wout Krijgsman, The Netherlands, krijgsma@geo.uu.nl
Giovanni Muttoni, Italy, giovanni.muttoni1@unimi.it
Manfred Menning, Germany, menne@gfz-potsdam.de

Outline: distributed in ISSC Newsletter 12 (December 2007).
Comments: received and forwarded to the leader; available in the ISSC archive.
Full text: distributed in February 2009, comments received.
Paper published: Langereis C. G., Krijgsman W., Muttoni G., and Menning M., 2010. Magnetostratigraphy – concepts, definitions, and applications. Newsletter on Stratigraphy 43(3), p. 207-233.

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY

Previous task group:
Leader: Ashton Embry, Canada, AEmbry@NRCan.gc.ca
Donald E. Owen, USA, owende@hal.lamar.edu
Benoit Beauchamp, Canada, bbeaucha@ucalgary.ca
Erik Johannessen, Norway, EPJ@statoil.com
Piero Gianolla, Italy, piero.gianolla@unife.it

Outline: distributed in ISSC Newsletter 8 (October 2005).
Comments: received and forwarded to the leader; available in the ISSC archive.
Full text: distributed in February 2007, comments received and followed by a heated on-line debate (see http://strata.geol.sc.edu/SeqStratForm.html). Rejected in its first version. Revised version rejected by an ad-hoc international review committee of five experts chaired by Chris Kendall. Gianolla did not contribute to this version. Task group was disbanded and the current group appointed during the sequence stratigraphy discussion session at 33rd IGC in Oslo.

A new group was appointed by the ISSC Officers at Oslo:
Leader: Octavian Catuneanu, Canada, octavian@ualberta.ca
Andreas Strasser, Switzerland, andreas.strasser@unifr.ch
Andrew Miall, Canada, miall@geology.utoronto.ca
William Galloway, USA, galloway@mail.utexas.edu
Maurice Tucker, UK, m.e.tucker@durham.ac.uk
Christopher Kendall, kendall@geol.sc.edu
Henry Posamentier, USA, henry.posamentier@chevron.com

Outline: has not been distributed by the current group but one was distributed by previous group.
Comments: from the first outline were forwarded to the leader, and made available in the ISSCarchive.
Full text: distributed in February 2011, comments received in May 2011.
Paper published: Catuneanu, O., Galloway, W.E., Kendall, C.G.St.C., Miall, A.D., Posamentier, H.W., Strasser, A., and Tucker, M.E., 2011. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Vol. 44(3), p. 173–245.