Code of stratigraphic nomenclature developed by the American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature
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https://doi.org/10.32685/0120-1425/bolgeol16.1-3.1968.124Keywords:
American continent, stratigraphic code, classification, stratigraphic units
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Considering that this Code is the most important document of its kind, the Mexican organizations that participated in its elaboration have decided to publish the Spanish version of the Code jointly.
The philosophy that guided the Commission, expressed in its six reports, has as one of its greatest successes that in the definition and establishment of the units, both lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic, these are considered completely independent of each other. Likewise, they are independent of the chronostratigraphic and geochronological units. Therefore, there are no equivalent categories either between the first two or between any of these and the second two, as is the case between the latter, where there are.
This novelty in stratigraphic classification will make it possible to avoid many problems encountered in stratigraphy and to satisfactorily solve many others.
Another fundamental advantage inherent in the formulation of the Code itself will be the uniform use of a stratigraphic classification and nomenclature throughout the continent of North America, as well as the hope that it will be accepted in Central and South America and even possibly throughout the world, since this is the only stratigraphic Code in existence to date, except for the set of rules for the "Classification and Nomenclature of Lithological Units" of 1933, which the publication of this Code will supersede.
In the version offered here, an effort has been made to present the concepts expressed in the original document clearly and precisely, trying to stick to the phraseology of the same.
