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________________________________________________________________________ On Monday, September 8, 2003 at 20:17:38 NDT and 20:28:46 NDT, Guy Narbonne <narbonne@geol.queensu.ca> wrote: I.U.G.S. SUBCOMMISSION ON THE TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC SYSTEM The 18th Circular of the IUGS Subcommission on the Terminal Proterozoic System (----- <SNIP> -----) contains the background, results, and implications of the 3rd ballot on a GSSP and name for a new terminal Proterozoic System. Copies of the 18th Circular and previous TPS circulars can also be found on our website at http://geol.queensu.ca/people/narbonne/trm-prot/. The Ediacaran System and Period was approved by the IUGS Subcommission on the Terminal Proterozoic System with a large majority (89% for the GSSP; 79% for the name). It will be sent forward sent forward to the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences for approval. Formal decision and announcement are expected at the 2004 IGC in Florence. The principles and techniques utilized in defining the Ediacaran may well be of use in the definition and correlation of older Neoproterozoic systems and periods. Guy Narbonne, Secretary IUGS Subcommission on the Terminal Proterozoic System ________________________________________________________________________ -- Mr. W. Douglas Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6 Phone: (709) 729-2163 Fax: (709) 729-4270 WWW: http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/mapping/boyce.html http://www.geosurv.gov.nf.ca/education/fossils/index.html http://www.canadianrockhound.com/summer97/cr9701301_nfld.html http://www.spnhc.org/documents/fossilprotection.htm _________________________________________________________________________
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