1. The EditorsNew science for old strata
3. Andrew D. MiallEmpiricism and model building in stratigraphy: The historical roots of present-day practices
27. Andrew D. Miall and Charlene E. MiallEmpiricism and model building in stratigraphy: Around the hermeneutic circle in the pursuit of stratigraphic correlation
47. Spencer G. LucasA global hiatus in the Middle Permian tetrapod fossil record
65. Mathias Harzhauser and Werner E. PillerIntegrated stratigraphy of the Sarmatian (Upper Middle Miocene) in the western Central Paratethys
87. W. Krijgsman, S. Gaboardi, F.J. Hilgen, S. Iaccarino E. de Kaenel. and E. van der LaannRevised astrochronology for the Ain el Beida section (Atlantic Morocco): No glacio-eustatic control for the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis
103. Richard A. ReymentA quantitative procedure for chemostratigraphy
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2. ICS ForumTowards an International Association of Stratigraphic Geologists
Contents Volume 2 Number 1, Spring 2005
1. The EditorsRock, time, and reconsideration
13. Caroline A. Van Mourik and Henk BrinkhuisThe Massignano Eocene-Oligocene golden spike section revisited
31. Ernest A. Mancini and T. Markham PuckettJurassic and Cretaceous Transgressive-Regressive (T-R) Cycles, Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA
65. Marie-Pierre Aubry, Médard Thiry, Christian Dupuis and William A. BerggrenThe Sparnacian deposits of the Paris Basin: A lithostratigraphic classification