Geological Concepts
Development of Geologic Time Scale
and Stratigraphic Classification
• Smith’s Stratigraphic Classification of England
• Contributions to the Geologic Timescale
Nomenclature
• International Geological Congress Paris 1878 and
Bologna 1881 ( 1-fold classification)
• Ashely Report (1933) (2 fold classification)
• North American Stratigraphic Code (1956) and
IGC (1961) (3 fold classification)
• North American Stratigraphic Code (1986) and
IGC (1990) (multi-fold classification)
TIME AND GEOLOGIC TIME