Each session has a long description and a short description. The short description is used to select the preferred and/or alternate session when you submit an abstract. S 01 - The contribution of fossils to Chronostratigraphy, 150 years after Albert Oppel S 02 - Interregional correlations of sequences and sedimentary patterns: Implications for geological history and biotic evolution S 03 - Lithostratigraphy and lithodemic nomenclature in basement rocks S 04 - Carbon and strontium isotope stratigraphy S 05 - Applications, implications and the construction of the Astronomical Time Scale S 06 - Eustasy – What’s the Problem? S 07 - Correlating shallow water carbonates with deep water sections S 08 - Stratigraphy and volcanism S 09 - Planetary Stratigraphy S 10 - Concepts and Responsibility of National Geological Survey Organisations in Lithostratigraphy S 11 - Precambrian Stratigraphy and Earth System History S 12 - Reassessment of the GSSP of the base the Cambrian S 13 - Devonian Events, Correlation and Time S 14 - The Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary S 15 - Stratigraphy of the pre-Variscan sequences S 16 - The Mesozoic Earth System from Integrated Stratigraphic Records S 17 - Progress in Triassic stratigraphy S 18 - Triassic integrated stratigraphy and extreme climatic, environmental and biotic events S 19 - Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary issues S 20 - Integrated stratigraphy in Jurassic and Cretaceous sedimentary basins S 21 - IGCP609 Climate-environmental deteriorations during greenhouse phases: Causes and consequences of short-term Cretaceous sea-level changes S 22 - Major events and environmental changes in the Paleogene world S 23 - Towards a calibrated Larger Foraminifera Biostratigraphic Zonation: newest results from Neotethys and beyond S 24 - The Search for a Bartonian GSSP S 25 - Neogene Stratigraphy – Integrating global and regional chronostratigraphy S 26 - Testing the time scale: quantitative and high-resolution calibration of Cenozoic biostratigraphic events S 27 - Integrated stratigraphy and correlation of Miocene stages (Messinian, Badenian): from restricted basin to the world ocean S 28 - Quaternary Stratigraphy S 29 - Quaternary stratigraphy of the Ponto-Caspian region S 30 - Travertines and climate changes S 31 - General session on stratigraphy