International Union for Quaternary Research
The International Union for Quaternary Research (German: Internationale Quartärvereinigung , INQUA ) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of the geological age of the Quaternary (geology) , the most recent 2.6 million years.
The main concern of INQUA is to promote understanding and international cooperation on the fundamentals and applied aspects of Quaternary research .
INQUA was founded in Copenhagen in 1928 on the initiative of Victor Madsen , the head of the Danish geological survey . From Germany, among others, Paul Woldstedt and Rudolf Grahmann were involved and from Austria Gustav Götzinger . In 1933, at the 16th International Geological Congress in Washington, DC , it was decided to expand INQUA beyond Europe, and at the 3rd INQUA Congress in Vienna in 1936 , scientists from the USA were present for the first time.
In 2015 INQUA had more than 50 national and regional member associations from 35 nations. She is a member of the International Science Council . The German section of INQUA is the German Quaternary Association (DEUQUA).
The official trade journal of INQUA is Quaternary International . The INQUA conferences take place every four years, for example the 17th Congress 2007 in Cairns .
See also
- ESI scale , earthquake scale developed by INQUA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). (No longer available online.) International Union for Quaternary Research, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jürgen Ehlers: The Ice Age. Spektrum Verlag, 2011, p. 15.
