8 - Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee - Armin Aleksander Öpik Guide to Records

Series 8 - Stratigraphic Nomenclature Committee

Date Range	1960s - 1970s
Provenance	Armin Aleksander Öpik
Description	Manuscript and typescript drafts, circulars, correspondence and congress papers.

Inventory Listing

8-1	File 1
	Manuscript and typescript drafts of correspondence with Dorothy Hill, R. A. Robinson, K. Sdzuy; manuscript corrections of Bulletin 74; table. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Date range 1960s - 1970s Quantity 0.8 cm, 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-1 Box Number 34 Series 8
8-2	Facies - Notes - File 2
	Typescript drafts of: 'Facies'; 'Analysis of the Theoretical and Practical Concepts of "Rock-unit", e. g. Formation' (also manuscript draft); 'The Geographical System of Stratigraphical Nomenclature in the Australian Code and the Classification of Names of Units'. Manuscript notes, n.d. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Quantity 0.7 cm, 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-2 Box Number 34 Series 8
8-3	1)Code, 2)Farmahonology(?) - File 3
	Typescript papers, some untitled, concerning the Australian Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature and the terminology used in the same; manuscript drafts of some of the above papers, and of related correspondence; manuscript notes. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Date range 1960s Quantity 3 cm, 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-3 Box Number 34 Series 8
8-4	Fourth International Congress on Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Heerlen 1958
	Typescript papers from Congress, dealing with responses to questionnaire of previous year, in English, French and German; related maps and tables. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Date range 1958 Quantity 1 cm, 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-4 Box Number 34 Series 8
8-5	Code
	Manuscript and typescript papers dealing with the terminology of the Australian Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature, n.d. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Quantity 1 cm, 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-5 Box Number 34 Series 8
8-6	IUGS Commission on Stratigraphy
	Subcommission on Stratigraphic Terminology Circulars, numbers 10 and 11; Commission on Stratigraphy Circulars 2 (with supplement), 3, 5; paper 'Subdivision du Tertiaire en deux systèmes indépendants Paléogène et Néogène' with tables ; report from the 'Committee on the Terminology of the Silurian and Ordovician' with covering letter; manuscript comment on Circular 4. Creator Armin Aleksander Öpik Date range 1960s, 3.2 Quantity 1 file Inventory Identifier 8-6 Box Number 34 Series 8

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