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[email protected] February 2011 Compiled ICS Subcommission Annual Reports for 2010 SUBCOMMISSION ON QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHY ANNUAL REPORT 2010 1. TITLE OF CONSTITUENT BODY and NAME OF REPORTER Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) Philip GIBBARD Chairman, SQS Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EN, England. Tel: +44 (0)1223 333924; Fax: +44 (0)1223 333392, E-mail:
[email protected] 2. OVERALL OBJECTIVES AND FIT WITHIN IUGS SCIENCE POLICY 1. Rationalisation of global chronostratigraphical classification. 2. Intercalibration of fossil biostratigraphies, integrated zonation and recognition of global datum points. 3. Definition of Subseries/Series boundaries and selection of global stratotype sections. 4. Correlation of Quaternary rock successions and events, including terrestrial to marine