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Newsletter 26, 2011 ------S------D------S------ SUBCOMMISSION ON DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY NEWSLETTER NO. 26 R.T. BECKER, Editor WWU Münster Germany March 2011 ISSN 2074-7268 SDS NEWSLETTER 26 Editorial The SDS Newsletter is published annually by the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy of the IUGS Subcommission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It publishes reports and news from its membership, scientific discussions, Minutes of SDS Meetings, SDS reports to ICS, general IUGS information, information on past and future Devonian meetings and research projects, and reviews or summaries of new Devonian publications. Editor: Prof. Dr. R. Thomas BECKER SDS CHAIRMAN Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Corrensstr. 24 D-48149 Münster, Germany [email protected] Circulation 120 hard copies, pdf files of current and past issues are freely available from the SDS Homepage at www.unica.it/sds/ Submissions have to be sent electronically, preferably as Word Documents or pdf files, to the Editor or to Mrs. S. KLAUS, IGP, Münster ([email protected]). Submission deadline is the end of each calendar year. Content: Message from the Chairman 1 Obituary: J.R. MORROW (D.J. OVER & E. SCHINDLER) 2 Obituary: T.N. KOREN (N. SENNIKOV, T. TOLMACHEVA & O. OBUT) 2 Obituary: O. GRATSIANOVA (J. TALENT) 4 Obituary: O.H. WALLISER (E. SCHINDLER & H. GROOS-UFFENORDE) 7 SDS Reports 1. SDS Annual Report 2010 to ICS (R.T. BECKER) 9 2. Minutes of London Business Meeting (J.E. MARSHALL) 13 3. D/C Boundary Task Group (M. ARETZ) 18 4. IGCP proposal Silurian-Devonian (B. CRAMER et al.) 20 5. IGCP proposal “Climate change and biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Paleozoic (P. KÖNIGSHOF et al.) 21 6. Old Red Sandstone Field Trip Report (J.E. MARSHALL) 23 SDS Documents 1. Timing of F2 reefs (C.A. SANDBERG) 28 2. Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary (C. SPALETTA et al.) 30 3. Emsian stratigraphy in the Tafilalt - preliminary new data (R.T. BECKER & Z.S. ABOUSSALAM) 33 4. Famennian of the Junggar Basin (MA, X.-P. et al.) 44 5. Frasnian ammonoids from Myanmar (AUNG, A.K. et al.) 49 6. Pragian-Emsian of the Kitab Reserve and the Barrandian (J. HLADIL, et al.) 54 7. New Zinzilban conodont results (N. IZOKH et al.) 57 8. Famennian ammonoids and foraminiferes from Kazakhstan (N.B. GIBSHMAN & S.V. NIKOLAEVA) 58 Devonian Meetings 1. GSA Meeting, March 2011 65 2. SDS Joint Field Meeting, Novosibirsk 2011, 2nd Circular 67 3. Field Trip – Annual GSA Meeting 2011 74 4. 34th IGC, Brisbane 2012 75 Devonian Publications 1. SDS Middle Devonian Volume in Palaeo x 3 (Content) 77 2. Abstract, Ph. D. S. HARTENFELS 78 1. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 39 82 2. Regional Devonian Workshop Prague & Graz 2009 (Content) 83 3. Palaeozoic Seas Symposium, Graz 2009 (Content) 85 4. New trilobite publications 87 5. New volume on Luxemburg Devonian 88 6. Future volumes in “Palaeo x 3” 88 7. IGCP 580, Geologica Belgica 89 Membership News CM G. BAIRD 90 CM I. BARDASHEV 91 TM R.T. BECKER and the Münster Group 91 TM A. BLIECK 95 CM M. BRADSHAW 95 TM C.E. BRETT 96 CM R. BROCKE 98 CM P. BULTYNCK 99 CM C. BURROW 99 TM G. CASIER 100 CM C. CORRADINI 101 TM U. JANSEN 101 CM E. MARK-KURIK 102 CM H. MATYJA 103 TM J.E. OVER 104 TM G. RACKI 104 CM C. SPALETTA 106 CM T. SUTTNER 106 CM S. TURNER 108 TM J.I. VALENZUELA-RÍOS 109 CM C. VER STRAETEN 110 CM T. WRIGHT 111 Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS Newsletter No 26 March 2011 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN In 2010 our Subcommission continued to be a very the same extent as we have. Until ICS, with the lively, active and successful organization. Its consent of IUGS, will formalize the substage members produced many highly interesting and definition procedure, we have to go ahead with our often innovative publications and our meetings were decided boundaries and have to publish them as SDS well attended. This Newsletter gives evidence of the recommendations, currently without formal ICS many scientific activities in the Devonian and of a ratification. Unfortunately, it was raining cats and well-functioning, intensive communication. Please dogs during our Devonian field trip day. Our Czech read carefully my report to ICS, which summarizes colleagues did their best to convince the the achievements, the non-achievements and the Commission that it is not always raining on future tasks of SDS. Devonian GSSPs. I was very sad to receive towards the end of the The highlight of the year was certainly the SDS past year a series of notes concerning the death of Old Red Sandstone Fieldtrip, wonderfully organized long-term, highly regarded to outstanding members by our SECRETARY, and the subsequent Devonian and of other Devonian workers. Early in October program during IPC 3, including our Annual Jared MORROW lost his battle against cancer – he Business Meeting and the meeting of the D/C was even a few days younger than me. All who Boundary Task Group. I am sad that the excursion came to the wonderful Nevada field meeting in 2007 took place right in my main teaching period but the appreciated the superb job he did for SDS, not to report written by John MARSHALL (see Reports mention his most important research on the section) will convince everybody who did not come Frasnian-Famennian boundary and on the Alamo that she/he really missed something, especially a Impact. His much too early departure may mean that free bagpipes concert. When I proposed the London many aspects of the Devonian of the Great Basin “Devonian Events” symposium I did not anticipate will be left unstudied for a long time. Only a week how popular it would be. There were 37 later, Tatjana KOREN died very unexpectedly and contributions and we had to expand the schedule to after short but serious illness. I was really shocked cover a full day. The partly controversial discussions since I had met Tatjana twice in 2010 and we had concerning the D/C boundary can be followed in the good discussions and she had promised me to write a report by M. ARETZ, who was appointed as Task summary/revision of the Zinzilban graptolites. This Group Leader, with Carlo CORRADINI as the vice- will not happen any more and, apart from her very leader from the Devonian side. nice personality, her extensive knowledge of the Silurian-Devonian of Russia will be deeply missed. This Newsletter includes many interesting topics, Equally suddenly and unexpectedly, our long-term from new research data concerning Morocco, NW German SDS member, Otto H. WALLISER died just China, and Myanmar, to updates of the running at the end of the year. Tatjana and Otto were friends investigations in the Kitab Reserve, in the frame of for many years. Otto led the Göttingen Devonian the Emsian revision. I have added abstracts and group successfully for decades and it is rather sad contents of several important Devonian publications. that only a small part of his immense knowledge Together with Carl BRETT, we will work for a ever made it into print. He will always be proceedings volume that contains papers of our remembered as one of the few “nestors” of London symposium. Please take notice of the Devonian Event Stratigraphy. His contributions to considerable current activities of IGCP 580 (see the formal definition of the Silurian-Devonian, Publications section). Eifelian-Givetian, Frasnian-Famennian and Devonian-Carbonifrerous boundaries will also There will be two important Devonian meetings become part of the ever-lasting Devonian research this year. The first, very soon, in conjunction with history. combined regional GSA meetings in March in Pittsburgh. Our main meeting will be the Field In my function as CHAIRMAN I took part in the Symposium in Novosibirsk, with excursions to the Prague 2010 ICS Workshop at the end of May and Urals and Kuznetsk Basin, in late July and August. I in early June. I gave three presentations: one on the am sure this will be a very nice occasion and I am problems of Devonian GSSPs, one on Devonian looking forward seeing many of you there. I like to substages, and on, the SCS may forgive, on the thank all, who send texts for this Newsletter – please revision of the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. continue to do so next year. ICS was rather pleased with our numerous activities and our GSSP problems contributed significantly to R. Thomas BECKER the general GSSP discussion, one of the main topics of the workshop. Unfortunately, the question of formal substage recognition still was not settled. It is clear that there will be substages in other systems (e.g., Carboniferous, Triassic) but other subcommissions have not yet dealt with this issue to 1 Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS Newsletter No 26 March 2011 OBITUARY: Jared R. MORROW, 1959 – 2010 D. Jeffrey OVER (SUNY Geneseo) Eberhard SCHINDLER (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt) Corresponding Member Dr. Jared R. MORROW passed on 7 October 2010, the day before his 51st birthday, of cancer, at his home in San Diego, California. Jared is best known to the SDS for his work on the Frasnian-Famennian boundary and impact studies, notably the Upper Devonian Alamo Event in the western US. He shall be remembered as places where no geologist had gone before. Jared a fine scientist, dedicated to students, a great was the primary organizer of the SDS trip in 2007 organizer and leader, avid outdoorsman, and just a that accompanied the meeting in Eureka, Nevada, nice and humble person. Meeting Jared which visited numerous classic sites spanning the automatically meant to like him – often a long- Devonian in Nevada and Utah.
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