Northern european cenozoic stratigraphy

The 8'h biannual joint meeting of the Regional Committees an Northern Neogene and Palaeogene was held at Salzau Castle, the official cultural centre of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, from the 2nd to the 7th of October 2001. The Regional Committees are subgroups of the Subcommissions an Paleogene and Neogene Stratigraphy which belang to the International Commission an Stratigraphy of the IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences). Every two years the meeting offers a platform for the exchange of research results and ideas in a formal as well as an informal setting. The meeting was attended by statigraphers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Poland and Germany, all involved in research on the Cenozoic North Sea.