Rules and recommendations for naming geological units in Norway

Norwegian Committee in Stratigraphy (NSK)

Preface

1. Introduction
   1.1 Background and purpose
   1.2 Definitions
   1.3 Categories in the Code
   
2. General rules for naming and defining geological units
   2.1 Formal and informal units and names: definition
   2.2 Names of formal units
   2.3 Names of informal units
   2.4 Rules for erecting formal geological units
   2.5 Amendment and rejecting of formal units
   
3. Geological units defined on the basis of material content or other physical properties
   3.1 General properties and arrangement of the rules for the units
   3.2 Lithostratigraphical units
   3.3 Lithodemic units
   3.4 Magnetostratigraphical units
   3.5 Biostratigraphical units
   3.6 Pedostratigraphical units
   3.7 Geological form units
   3.8 Linear structural units
   3.9 Planar structural units
   3.10 Morphostratigraphy
   3.11 Tectonostratigraphical units
   3.12 Seismostratigraphy
   
4. Geological units defined on the basis of
   time or age
   4.1 General
   4.2 Chronostratigraphical units
   4.3 Geochronological units
   4.4 Geochronometrical units
   4.5 Polarity-chronostratigraphical units
   4.6 Polarity-chronological units
   4.7 Diachronous units
   4.8 Deformational-diachronous units
   
5. References

Appendix 1-2
Appendix 1
Appendix 2a
Appendix 2b