The American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature announces with the publication of this note that work has begun on a recommended code of stratigraphic classification and nomenclature.
Orderly systems of classification and nomenclature are necessary in various scientific disciplines to make possible the exchange of intelligible information and ideas. This basic necessity has been recognized for many years, and, in zoological nomenclature, for instance, the need has been met by the operation of an international commission whose decisions are generally recognized. In stratigraphic nomenclature recommended procedures have been developed by International Geological Congresses and by inter-society committees, and although they have...
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