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

基金将为国际地质科学联合会石炭系地层学小组委员会（SCCS）中石炭系边界工作组的三名美国成员提供旅行补助金。这些赠款将允许参加由乌克兰科学院和苏联国家地质委员会为工作组组织的地质实地会议。会议将于1988年9月20日至29日在乌克兰东部的基辅和顿涅茨盆地（顿巴斯）举行。顿涅茨盆地的这部分岩柱是中石炭统边界层型的有力候选者，因为它在一个看似连续的沉积序列中包含了适当的边界界定化石。工作组成员需要进行第一手观察，以充分评估所有候选层型。美国成员还为参与状态型评估的重要化石类群提供专业知识，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，将有助于接受和理解1987年在北京通过的石炭纪一分为二的划分，其水平与北美的历史用法相一致。

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.