The Geologists At Prague: August 1968. History of the International Union of Geological Sciences

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecil Schneer
Keyword(s):  
Field Trips ◽  
International Union ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Global Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
Geological Sciences

In August, 1968 nearly 3000 geologists from 91 countries gathered in Prague for the XXIIIrd International Geological Congress. Geology was in a state of major transformation and the Congress was the opportunity for the nascent International Union of Geological Sciences to involve the world geological community. But a brutal invasion of Czechoslovakia by its Communist allies frustrated all plans. Over 500 papers, more than 50 field trips, dozens of colloquia, meetings of affiliated societies etc. were canceled. Thousands of geologists who might have disseminated a uniquely global science to the classrooms and boardrooms of 91 countries's, were scattered by the winds of war. In rump sessions within the dying Congress and immediately after, a handful of West bloc geologists, committed agents of the new developments, struggled to pick up the pieces. The IUGS had to wait four years for another plenary session with the world geological community.

Symposium on the Precambrian—Cambrian Boundary

1978 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Cowie
Keyword(s):  
International Project ◽  
Project Leader ◽  
Geological Correlation ◽  
International Union ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
Sydney Australia

At the International Geological Congress held in Sydney, Australia, in August 1976 a Symposium of papers and discussion on ‘The Precambrian–Cambrian Boundary Problem’ was organized by the author in his capacity as Project-Leader/Chairman of the international Project 29 Working Group on the Precambrian–Cambrian Boundary. The following seven papers arose from this symposium. Project 29 is part of the current research under the auspices of the International Geological Correlation Programme (I.G.C.P.). which is sponsored jointly by the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (I.U.G.S.).

Notes from the Editors, October 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Atomic Weapons ◽  
Fallout Radionuclides ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Signal ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress

buy this issueOn August 29, in a historic moment in the history of the planet, the 35-member Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) reported to the International Geological Congress that the Anthropocene epoch in geological history is "stratigraphically real" and should be dated as arising around 1950, displacing the Holocene epoch of the last 12,000 years. The AWG has yet to arrive at a formal decision that would adopt a definite global "signal" (though ten of the thirty-five members currently support using fallout radionuclides from atomic weapons testing as the signal), which would be followed by the designation of a "golden spike" or actual location in the rock, sediment, or ice strata. Yet the general parameters of the onset of the new epoch are clear.… As Colin Waters, secretary of the AWG, explained: "Being able to pinpoint an interval of time is saying something about how we have had an incredible impact on the environment of our planet. The concept of the Anthropocene manages to pull all these ideas of environmental change together." Most importantly, it tells us that the world economy has generated an anthropogenic rift in the Earth system threatening millions of species, including our own, requiring fundamental changes in the way in which society relates to the earth through production.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

scholarly journals About this title - Celebrating 100 Years of Female Fellowship of the Geological Society: Discovering Forgotten Histories

10.1144/sp506 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 506 (1) ◽  
pp. NP-NP ◽  
Author(s):  
C. V. Burek ◽  
B. M. Higgs
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Early American ◽  
The World ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geological Sciences

The Geological Society of London was founded in 1807. At the time, membership was restricted to men, many of whom became well-known names in the history of the geological sciences. On the 21 May 1919, the first female Fellows were elected to the Society, 112 years after its formation.This Special Publication celebrates the centenary of that important event. In doing so it presents the often untold stories of pioneering women geoscientists from across the world who navigated male-dominated academia and learned societies, experienced the harsh realities of Siberian field-exploration, or responded to the strategic necessity of the ‘petroleum girls’ in early American oil exploration and production.It uncovers important female role models in the history of science, and investigates why not all of these women received due recognition from their contemporaries and peers. The work has identified a number of common issues that sometimes led to original work and personal achievements being lost or unacknowledged, and as a consequence, to histories being unwritten.

scholarly journals II.—The Twelfth International Geological Congress in Canada

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 486-490
Author(s):  
B. Hobson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
The World ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
The Right ◽  
General Secretary

At the Stockholm meeting of the Congress in 1910 an invitation to hold the twelfth meeting in Canada was accepted. As the Congress met in the United States in 1891 and in Mexico in 1906, members were thus afforded an opportunity of visiting all the great divisions of North America. The Canadian meeting was held at Toronto from August 7 to 14, 1913, under the presidency of Professor F. D. Adams, of McGill University. About 600 members attended it, although the total enrolled was nearly twice as great, and 46 countries were represented among the members. The Congress was formally opened by the Right Hon. Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, on behalf of H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, the Honorary President, who was unavoidably absent, and speeches of welcome were made by others. Dr. R. W. Brock, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada and General Secretary of the Congress, presented to the Congress a monograph entitled “The Coal Resources of the World”, the result of an inquiry made upon the initiative of the Executive Committee of the Twelfth Congress, with the assistance of Geological Surveys and mining geologists of different countries. It consists of three quarto volumes of about 400 pages each (11 by 8 1¼4 inches) and an atlas of 66 pages of maps in colours (13 1¼2 by 191¼2 inches) published by Morang & Co., of Toronto, at $25 per set, net.

Silurian

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Bassett ◽  
B. J. Bluck ◽  
R. Cave ◽  
C. H. Holland ◽  
J. D. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Standard Series ◽  
Magnetic Pole ◽  
International Union ◽  
Lower Silurian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Upper Silurian ◽  
Geological Sciences

AbstractThe history of establishment of the Silurian System (and hence of the Silurian Period) and its principal divisions has been reviewed by Cocks et al. (1971) and Holland (1984, 1989a). The System itself, three of the four Series into which it is divided, and the Stages within these three, are all based upon localities in Britain. The names of all the divisions shown in Fig. I have been ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences. The two major divisions, Lower Silurian and Upper Silurian, remain informal, but they are useful when degree of precision in correlation does not allow reference at the level of Series (Holland 1989a). The boundary stratotypes are all described in Holland & Bassett (1989). Graptolite Biozones have proved especially useful for international correlation in the Silurian and the sequence of Biozones used in Britain is shown in Fig. 1. Correlation of the Biozones wth the global Standard Series and Stages is shown approximately, but is not known with exactitude in all cases.Geodetically the position of the British Isles in the Silurian remained astride the 25°S latitude, a position it had reached in the later Ordovician (Briden et al. 1973); movementwas confined to rotation. During this time the south magnetic pole wandered, in terms of present geography, from near to southwest Africa, to the Horn of Africa in early Silurian times, then back along the equator to west Africa/Brazil at the end of the Silurian.The Llandovery Epoch was chracterized by marine transgressions. Thus in

The Ordovician Rocks of the Builth District A Preliminary Account

1941 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. T. Jones ◽  
W. J. Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress ◽  
Insight Into

The Builth district was visited by one of us (O. T. J.) in the spring of 1939 with a view to arranging an excursion for the International Geological Congress which was to have been held in London in 1940. Amongst other places the magnificent range of quarries in the Ordovician volcanic rocks of Llanelwedd, near Builth, was examined. Beyond the western end of the quarries a striking boulder bed was observed which promised to give an insight into a remarkable episode in the history of the district. This bed is shown on the I in. Geological Survey Map, Old Series, Sheet 56, S.W.

Systematic Flexibility and the History of the IUPAC Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Hepler-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Organic Compound ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Chemical ◽  
International Union ◽  
Chemical Substances ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Iupac Nomenclature

For chemists and chemistry students around the world, “IUPAC” is synonymous with “nomenclature” – especially the nomenclature of organic chemistry. Generations of chemists have learned – sometimes grudgingly – to read and write systematic names for organic compounds using guidelines codified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. [1,2,3] The prefixes, suffixes, numbers, and parentheses of IUPAC names put molecules in order: individually, by expressing the network of atoms and bonds that constitutes the structure of an organic compound, and collectively, by situating each compound among the tens of millions of known organic chemical substances. IUPAC names carry this order out of chemical journals and into such sites as patent records, customs lists, and environmental regulatory databases.

VI.—The Coastal Series of Sediments in the East Africa Protectorate

1915 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 274-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. B. Maufe
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Coal Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
International Geological ◽  
International Geological Congress

In his report on “The Coal Resources of the East Africa Protectorate” published in the Twelfth International Geological Congress‘ The Coal Resources of the World (vol. ii, p. 381), Dr. J. W. Evans discusses evidence bearing on the existence of coal in the Taru Grits, which form the lowest member of the coastal series of sediments in the East Africa Protectorate. Referring to a report of mine, he remarks that I believe them to be of Karroo age, and then says, “E. Fraas, who subsequently made a brief examination of the line of railway, and whose account of the geology of the region differs in many respects from that of Maufe, refers them to the Middle Dogger (Inferior Oolite).”

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