• 责任者：Zhang Sengui (Editorial Office of Journal of Stratigraphy ; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Nanjing 210008 ; China) ; Zhang Yunbai
• 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
• 出版年：2009
• 卷期：33(1)
• 关键词：地质年代表 ; geologic time scale ; 全球 ; Global
• 页码：p.1-10
• 图表：2 tables, 14 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
• isbnNo：CN32-1187/P

As a successor to the “International Stratigraphic Chart” (2004), the “International Stratigraphic Chart” (2008)was constructed by the International Commission on Stratigraphy  (ICS) in 2008. Some updates in the new chart may be outlined as follows: the Quaternary was readopted as a formal Period/System of the Cenozoic; chronostratigraphic frameworks of the Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian were greatly refined;14 new GSSPs were formalized, and some radiometric ages were revised. To aid correlations using magnetostratigraphy and eustatic oscillations, the “International Stratigraphic Chart” (2008) is present together with the “Geologic Time Scale” (2008).