National Commission for Stratigraphy – Belgium

The National Commission for Stratigraphy (NCS) has the task to organize the stratigraphic nomenclature of the Belgian geology according to international standards and conventions. The NCS therefore works in close cooperation with the International Commission on Stratigraphy which is installed by the International Union of Geological Sciences. The NCS promotes the collaboration between all geoscientists involved in the Belgian stratigraphy and the Commission can take initiatives to improve the understanding of stratigraphy within the geoscience community.

The National Commission for Stratigraphy in Belgium is formally installed by the National Committee for Geological Sciences which depends on the National Academy of Sciences of Belgium.

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Website update! The NCS has published orthographic guidelines online, for correctly writing Belgian stratigraphic unit names. These guidelines are available in English, Dutch, French and German.
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Conference alert! On 24-27 June 2025 the GeoTolosa conference “News from the Paleozoic Worlds”  will take place at the University of Toulouse in France. This conference combines the International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP), VARISCAN and the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy meetings. More information can...
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A full revision of the Devonian stratigraphy of Belgium has been published by Julien Denayer, Bernard Mottequin, Marie Coen-Aubert, Jean-Marc Marion, Bernard Delcambre and Edouard Poty as a separate volume of the Geologica Belgica journal. Following this publication, a proposal is submitted to the NCS for a revised...
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