The Pleistocene Committee of the Stratigraphic Commission is preparing a Report on the “Application of Stratigraphic Classification and Nomenclature to the Quaternary.”

In this youngest of major segments of the stratigraphic column, there are, as in the Precambrian, many special problems that merit consideration in the application of rules proposed in the Reports of the Stratigraphic Commission. The purpose of this note is to point out some particular problems and solicit comments and suggestions from workers in this field.

The nature, usage, and nomenclature of time-stratigraphic and geologic-time units, rock-stratigraphic units, and biostratigraphic units have been discussed in Stratigraphic...

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