Bathonian Working Group

Abstract

The Working Group meeting during the 7th
International Jurassic Congress in Krakow agreed to
submission of the proposal of the Ravin du Bès section
as GSSP for vote in the Working Group by April 2007
and to the Jurassic Subcommission later. New
multidisciplinary investigations of the candidate section,
however, have been finished during April and May. The
formal ballot on the proposal of the Ravin du Bès
section as GSSP for the Bathonian Stage, by post or
email, to all members of the BtWG is responsibility of
the convenor and the International Subcommission on
Jurassic Stratigraphy Executive, and is expected by
September 2007.