Svend Stouge

Svend Stouge (* 1942 ) is a Danish geologist . He is an associate professor (as of 2008) at the University of Copenhagen and works at the Geological Museum there.

Stouge researches the taxonomy of the conodonts as well as the biostratigraphy and stratigraphy of the early Paleozoic Era . He suggested 2005 as part of an international group of researchers a GSSP (Worldwide geological reference point) for the Dapingium (about 471.8 to 468.1 mya ) in front, the hitherto unnamed chronostratigraphic stage in Mittelordovizium . The ICS (International Commission for Stratigraphy) accepted the proposal in 2007.

Svend Stouge is editor of Lethaia , an international journal for paleontology and stratigraphy that appears four times a year .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Xiaofeng Wang, Svend Stouge, Bernd-D. Erdtmann, Xiaohong Chen, Zhihong Li, Chuanshang Wang, Qingluan Zeng, Zhiqiang Zhou and Huiming Chen: A proposed GSSP for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series: the Huanghuachang section, Yichang, China. Episodes, 28 (2): 105-116, Beijing 2005 E-Text ISSN  0705-3797
2. ↑ Scientist helps to define geological time  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of May 29, 2007  

Web links

• Homepage of the Geological Museum (as of July 2008)