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LETHAIA NEWSLETTER PRESENTATIONSLET HA IA 9 1976) 376

PETER BENGTSON

Project MID-CRETACEOUS EVENTS

M C E N e w s is the newsletter of the Project Mid-Cretaceous Events MCE) of the International Geo-logical Correlation Programme. Briefly, the purposeof this project is to establish a viable zonation schemefor the middle Cretaceous Albian-Coniacian) of theworld and, using this stratigraphic framework, to studythe geological, geophysical, biological and climaticevents which can be referred to this time interval inEarth history. The first issue appeared in January,1974, under the name of Turonian Projec t News-letter following the submission of a project proposalto the IGCP Secretariat in Paris by R. A. Reyment,Sweden, and T. Matsumoto, Japan. The project wasaccepted by the IGCP Board in April, 1974, and itsname changed to Mid-Cretaceous Events. Newsletters6 to 22 issued during 1974 and 1975, were namedMid-Cretaceous Even ts Newslet ter. By the end of1975, MCE had grown considerably, and there was anincreasing need for a uniformly styled and regularlyappearing newsletter. The outcome was M C E N e w sissued as a direct continuation of the former News-letters.From the first Newsletters in 1974, which were sentout to some ten persons only, the number of sub-scribers to M C E N e w s most of them participants ofMid-Cretaceous Events, had increased to about 250persons in 4 different countries by September, 1976.M C E N e w s is now issued eight times a year at regularintervals. It comprises 10-15 mimeographed pages inA4 size. There are three sections, viz. 1) the News-letter as such, 2) a list of recent publications relatingto MCE, and 3) presentations of Project participants.Section 1 of M C E N e w s is printed on colouredpaper, the colour being different for each year. It con-sists of a) editorial notes, b) reports of meetingsheld and information on coming meetings, c) infor-

mation on activities of MCE subgroups and regionalgroups, d) research notes, e) information on activitieswithin the Deep Sea Drilling Project DSDP), IUGSSubcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy, etc., f)wanted announcements, 8) contributions fro m par-ticipants, and h) a list of new participants.Section 2 lists all papers of interest to MCE thathave come under the eyes of the editors since the lastissue. This list normally comprises two pages. Sectionwas introduced when the Newsletter changed its nameto M C E News in January, 1976. It aims at eventuallypresenting all participants of MCE, thus providing abasis and, hopefully, also a stimulus for researchcollaboration between participants. In each issue, dataon 10-15 participants ar e given, to wit: name , age,academic degree or training, present position, maininterests within the scope of MCE, present activitieswithin MCE, and main research activities outsideMCE.For the French-speaking participants, M C E N e w s istranslated by P Y Berthou of the Paris Secretariatof MCE. Th e costs of producing the Newsletter aredefrayed by grants from the Swedish Natural ScienceResearch Council NFR). Ther e is, thus, no subscrip-tion fee. M C E N e w s is edited jointly by R. A. Rey-ment, Project Leader, and P. Bengtson, Project Secre-tary. Besides Project participants, other active workerson the middle Cretaceous may obtain copies of M C EN e w s by writing to the editors at: Paleontologiskainstitutionen, Box 558, S-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden. Alimited stock o back numbers for 1976 is still avail-able.The aim and scope of the Project Mid-CretaceousEvents will be presented in a forthcoming issue ofLethaia.