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  • Podcast INQUA India 2027
    Podcast INQUA India 2027

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • 2026 PATA Days
    2026 PATA Days

    PATA Days are the main activity of TERPRO’s project CHAMP. PATA stands for International Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology.

  • Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference
    Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference

    A joint IUBS-INQUA conference will be organized in China in November 2025.

Stratigraphy & Chronology (SACCOM)

Stratigraphy & Chronology (SACCOM)

Stratigraphy and Geochronology Commission SACCOM

SACCOM focuses on Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology, offering a platform to discuss and standardize global stratigraphical research and classifications through meetings, publications, and public outreach.

The Stratigraphy and Geochronology Commission is devoted to studying the Quaternary Period through Quaternary stratigraphy and chronology. It provides a forum for Quaternary scientists to discuss and establish stratigraphical investigations and classification worldwide.  It seeks to achieve this through the organization of regular meetings, publications, and publicity. In addition, a network of focus groups with specific mandates has been established under the auspices of the Commission.

Mission

SACCOM exists to promote and co-ordinate international co-operation and integration by:

  • the establishment and publication of a geological timescale for the Quaternary,
  • the unification of regional and national chronostratigraphical nomenclature,
  • the promotion of stratigraphical methods, and the dissemination of stratigraphical knowledge,
  • the evaluation of new stratigraphical methods and their integration into a multidisciplinary stratigraphy, and
  • the definition of principles of stratigraphical classification, terminology, and procedure and their publication.

SACCOM scientific activities are carried out through projects, websites, publications, and meetings, mainly through focus groups dedicated to the investigation of specific areas of the discipline, through collaboration with other INQUA Commissions, and outside organizations

SACCOM

    Lewis Owen

    President

    Lewis Owen

    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
    Susan Ivy-Ochs

    Secretary

    Susan Ivy-Ochs

    ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    Adele Bertini

    Vice President

    Adele Bertini

    University Of Florence, Firenze, Italy
    Helen Roberts

    Vice President

    Helen Roberts

    University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
    Aditi Dave

    ECR Officer

    Aditi Dave

    Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Opeyemi Adewumi

    ECR Representative

    Opeyemi Adewumi

    Center For Geosciences, University Of Coimbra, Portugal
    Hai Cheng

    Advisory Board Member

    Hai Cheng

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
    Makoto Okada

    Advisory Board Member

    Makoto Okada

    Ibaraki University, Japan
    Marcelo Cohen

    Advisory Board Member

    Marcelo Cohen

    Federal University of Pará, Brazil
    Jerry McManus

    Advisory Board Member

    Jerry McManus

    Columbia University, USA
    Anna Hughes

    Advisory Board Member

    Anna Hughes

    University of Manchester, UK
    Maria Marino

    Advisory Board Member

    Maria Marino

    Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
  • Podcast INQUA India 2027
    Podcast INQUA India 2027

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • 2026 PATA Days
    2026 PATA Days

    PATA Days are the main activity of TERPRO’s project CHAMP. PATA stands for International Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology.

  • Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference
    Call for applications IUBS-INQUA conference

    A joint IUBS-INQUA conference will be organized in China in November 2025.

  • Shackleton Conference 2025 – Submerged Quaternary Landscapes
    Shackleton Conference 2025 – Submerged Quaternary Landscapes

    The fourth Shackleton Conference will take place at Burlington House, London, on 22 September 2025. The conference will focus on vanished landscapes, the seafloor as a geological palimpsest retaining sketchy evidence for Quaternary landscapes that…

  • INQUA 2027 Talk Series
    INQUA 2027 Talk Series

    Join us for an engaging session with Prof. Jeffery R. Stone (Indiana State University, USA) discussing Holocene marine flooding & ecosystems of Lake Izabal, Guatemala scheduled for Saturday, 26 July 2025  at 6:00 PM IST…

Scientific Journals

INQUA serves the Quaternary Research community by supporting the publication of two scientific journals published by Elsevier • Quaternary International (QI), a hybrid Journal launched in 1989 • Quaternary Environments and Humans (QEH), a full Open Access Journal launched in 2023

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