The International Commission on Stratigraphy: developing global geostandards through international collaboration and consensus

国际地层学委员会：通过国际合作和共识制定全球地质标准-1347494斯坦利·芬尼，加州州立大学摘要国际地层学委员会（ICS）是国际地质科学联合会（IUGS）规模最大、历史最悠久的科学机构。国际年代地层学标准化委员会的主要目标是使国际年代地层图标准化，这是地质时标的基础，是表示地质年代的全球语言。所要求的资金将使科学委员会能够大大增加其活动，包括：（1）为选择界定国际年代地层图单位的全球层型剖面和点进行必要的实地调查和实地业务会议;（2）更新科学委员会各小组委员会的网站，使这些网站成为小组委员会编制的地层信息的主要档案和门户;（3）为青年科学家和来自欠发达国家的科学家提供旅费支助，以便他们参加实地调查、实地业务会议和小组委员会的国际专题讨论会。

The International Commission on Stratigraphy: developing global geostandards through international collaboration and consensusEAR-1347494 Stanley Finney, California State UniversityABSTRACTPI requests three years of funding to support the activities of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the largest and oldest constituent scientific body of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The primary objective of ICS is to standardize the International Chronostratigraphic Chart, which is the basis for the Geologic Time Scale and serves as the global language for expressing geologic time. The funding requested would allow ICS to greatly increase its activities to include 1) field investigations and field business meetings necessary for the selection of Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) that define the units of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart; 2) rejuvenation of websites of ICS subcommissions in order that the websites become the primary archives and portals for stratigraphic information produced by the subcommissions; and 3) travel support for young scientists and scientists from under-developed countries to participate in field investigations, field business meetings, and international symposia of the subcommissions.