Permophiles Issue #38 2001Coming So<strong>on</strong>! – Canadian Society <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> PetroleumGeologists MEMOIR 19One last note from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> secretary.CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN OF THE WORLD, XIVINTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE CARBONIFEROUSAND PERMIAN (M19)This memoir highlights a 100 milli<strong>on</strong> year interval during which<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> superc<strong>on</strong>tinent Pangea was assembled, addressing issues <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>sedimentology, stratigraphy, resources, and pale<strong>on</strong>tology.Memoir 19 c<strong>on</strong>tains 60 refereed papers representing <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> selectedproceedings <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> XIV Internati<strong>on</strong>al C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Carb<strong>on</strong>iferousand <strong>Permian</strong> held at <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> University <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Calgary in August1999.This publicati<strong>on</strong> will be valuable to geoscientists interestedin Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous and <strong>Permian</strong> geology, not <strong>on</strong>ly in WesternCanada, but also around <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> world. Topics covered include:• Belloy Formati<strong>on</strong> sequences and paleogeography in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>Peace River Basin• Seven papers <strong>on</strong> Cyclo<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ms from Western Canada, USA,and Spain• Coal Resources and a North Sea gas play• U-Pb geochr<strong>on</strong>ology, sedimentology and stratigraphy <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>tuff in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Exshaw Formati<strong>on</strong>• Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous palynology and megaflora• Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous sedimentology and stratigraphy <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> easternNorth America• Pale<strong>on</strong>tological correlati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous and<strong>Permian</strong>• Discussi<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> Global Stratotype Secti<strong>on</strong>s and Pointsfor Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous and <strong>Permian</strong> stages.The Internati<strong>on</strong>al C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous and <strong>Permian</strong>(ICCP) was first held in June 1927 in Heerlen, The Ne<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rlands.The meetings have been held mostly in Europe (Heerlen, Paris,Sheffield, Krefeld, Moscow, Madrid, Krakow), but also in SouthAmerica (Buenos Aires), Asia (Beijing), and North America(Urbana, Illinois and for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> first time in Canada at Calgary,Alberta in August 1999). The meeting began by looking <strong>on</strong>ly at<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> perspective <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> understanding <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>geology <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this resource-rich, coal-bearing system. At Beijing in1987 <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>Permian</strong> System was added to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>gress, which wasa natural extensi<strong>on</strong> to many Carb<strong>on</strong>iferous geological problems.The ICCP is <strong>on</strong>e <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> oldest and most prestigious <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>stratigraphic c<strong>on</strong>gresses associated with <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Internati<strong>on</strong>alCommissi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Stratigraphy</strong> and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Internati<strong>on</strong>al Uni<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>Geological Sciences. Almost three hundred people attended <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>Calgary meeting and presented over 300 talks, posters, and coredisplays. The meeting was in part sp<strong>on</strong>sored by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> CanadianSociety <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Petroleum Geologists.Edited by Len V. Hills, Charles M. Henders<strong>on</strong>, and E.Wayne Bamber, 2001 (December), hard cover,approx. 800 pages, ISBN 0-920230-008To order your copy go to: www.cspg.org/Publicati<strong>on</strong>s/publicati<strong>on</strong>s/.htmlAvailable in February, 2002List Price: $136.00 Canadian (about $87.00 US); CSPG MemberPrice: $102.00 Shipping in Canada: $10.00; Shipping in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> USA:$15.00Permophiles is created by pasting text intoAdobe Pagemaker. 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