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LETHAIA NEWSLETTER PRESENTATIONS

LETHAIA 9 (1976) 376

PETER BENGTSON

Project MID-CRETACEOUS EVENTS

MCE News is the newsletter of the Project ‘Mid- mation on activities of MCE subgroups and regional
Cretaceous Events’ (MCE) of the International Geo- groups, (d) research notes, (e) information on activities
logical Correlation Programme. Briefly, the purpose within the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), IUGS
of this project is to establish a viable zonation scheme Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy, etc., (f)
for the middle Cretaceous (Albian-Coniacian) of the ‘wanted’ announcements, (8) contributions from par-
world and, using this stratigraphic framework, to study ticipants, and (h) a list of new participants.
the geological, geophysical, biological and climatic Section 2 lists all papers of interest t o MCE that
events which can be referred t o this time interval in have come under the eyes of the editors since the last
Earth history. The first issue appeared in January, issue. This list normally comprises two pages. Section 3
1974, under the name of Turonian Project - News- was introduced when the Newsletter changed its name
letter, following the submission of a project proposal to M C E News in January, 1976. It aims a t eventually
to the IGCP Secretariat in Paris by R. A. Reyment, presenting all participants of MCE, thus providing a
Sweden, and T. Matsumoto, Japan. The project was basis and, hopefully, also a stimulus for research
accepted by the IGCP Board in April, 1974, and its collaboration between participants. In each issue, data
name changed to ‘Mid-Cretaceous Events’. Newsletters on 10-15 participants are given, t o wit: name, age,
6 to 22, issued during 1974 and 1975, were named academic degree or training, present position, main
Mid-Cretaceous Events - Newsletter. By the end of interests within the scope of MCE, present activities
1975, MCE had grown considerably, and there was an within MCE, and main research activities outside
increasing need for a uniformly styled and regularly MCE.
appearing newsletter. The outcome was MCE News, For the French-speaking participants, M C E News is
issued as a direct continuation of the former News- translated by P. Y . Berthou of the Paris Secretariat
letters. of MCE. T h e costs of producing the Newsletter are
From the first Newsletters in 1974, which were sent defrayed by grants from the Swedish Natural Science
out to some ten persons only, the number of sub- Research Council (NFR). There is, thus, n o subscrip-
scribers to M C E News, most of them participants of tion fee. M C E News is edited jointly by R. A. Rey-
‘Mid-Cretaceous Events’, had increased to about 250 ment, Project Leader, and P. Bengtson, Project Secre-
persons in 40 different countries by September, 1976. tary. Besides Project participants, other active workers
M C E News is now issued eight times a year a t regular on the middle Cretaceous may obtain copies of M C E
intervals. It comprises 10-15 mimeographed pages in News by writing to the editors at: Paleontologiska
A4 size. There are three sections, viz. (1) the News- institutionen, Box 558, S-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden. A
letter as such, (2) a list of recent publications relating limited stock of back numbers for 1976 is still avail-
to MCE, and (3) presentations of Project participants. able.
Section 1 of MCE News is printed on coloured T h e aim and scope of the Project ‘Mid-Cretaceous
paper, the colour being different for each year. It con- Events’ will be presented in a forthcoming issue of
sists of (a) editorial notes, (b) reports of meetings Lethaia.
held and information on coming meetings, (c) infor-

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