XVIII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian /XVIII Международный конгресс по каменноугольным и пермским отложениям

Papers presented at the International Congress cover all aspects of the Earth history in the Carboniferous and Permian periods. Congress participants reported on the boundary definitions of the International Chronostratigraphic Scale and GSSP choices, high-resolution stratigraphy, Late Paleozoic glaciations and interglacials, tectonics and orogenies, the evolution of the marine and continental biotas, sequence stratigraphy, correlation of marine and non-marine strata, and Carboniferous and Permian coal and mineral resources.