Travel Support to Mid-Carboniferous Boundary Working Group Field Conference, Ukrania, Soviet Union

基金将为三名美国成员提供旅行赠款， 小组委员会中石炭纪边界工作组 石炭纪地层学国际联合会（SCCS） 地质科学（IUGS）。 这些赠款将允许参与 在为工作组组织的一次地质实地会议上， 乌克兰科学院和苏联国家科学院 地质委员会。 会议将于9月20日至29日举行， 1988年，在乌克兰东部的基辅和顿涅茨克盆地（顿巴斯）。 顿涅茨克盆地这一部分的岩柱是一个强大的 成为中石炭世界线层型的候选者 因为它包含了适当的边界定义化石， 看似连续的沉积序列 成员 工作组需要第一手观察，以充分评估所有 层型候选者。 美国成员还提供以下方面的专业知识： 参与地位型评价的重要化石群，如 并在工作组活动中发挥重要领导作用。 美国人参加这次工作组会议将 促进双方对分歧的接受和理解 1987年，石炭纪在北京通过， 这与它在北美的历史用法是一致的。

Funds will provide travel grants to three American members of the Mid-Carboniferous Boundary Working Group of the Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SCCS) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). These grants will allow participation in a geological field conference organized for the working group by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and the USSR National Geological Committee. The meeting will be held September 20-29, 1988, in Kiev and the Donets Basin (Donbass), eastern Ukrainia. The rock column in this part of the Donets Basin is a strong candidate to become the mid-Carboniferous boundary stratotype because it contains the appropriate boundary-defining fossils in a seemingly continuous depositional sequence. Members of the working group need first-hand observation to evaluate fully all stratotype candidates. American members also provide expertise on the important fossil groups involved in statotype evaluation, as well as significant leadership in working group activities. Participation by Americans in this working group meeting will facilitate acceptance and understanding of the bipartite division of the Carboniferous passed at Beijing, 1987, at a level compatible with its historical usage in North America.