Standards

BGR is closely involved in the development of national and international geological standards:

"Faltung", "fold" or "pli"? - Standardized geological terms and definitions help us to find a common understanding on geology. – Harz Source: P.Gdaniec - BGR

Working Group "Geology" of the German State Geological Surveys Working Group "Information Technologies" of the German State Geological Surveys INSPIRE Pool of Experts des Maintenance and Implementation Framework (MIF) CGI Geoscience Terminology Working Group In addition to the integration of global standardization initiatives CGI of IUGS focuses on building a globally usable standard vocabulary and multilingual geoscientific thesaurus and a standardized geoscience data model (cgi-iugs.org)

Due to the long history and existence of geological services in the federal states (SGD) a variety of terms and definitions is used to describe geological units in Germany. In the information age standardization is necessary for exchange and comparison of data.

On behalf of the Federal/State committee of soil research (BLA-GEO) representatives of the federal states and BGR (AG Geologie) have developed geological mapping instructions, including uniform geological terms and definitions:

• Geologische Kartieranleitung (Schweizerbart Verlag) - Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe G, Band G 9, E. Schweizerbart´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart, 2002.

  The geological mapping instructions are currently under revision.

In collaboration with the State Geological Surveys (SGD) State Authority of Mining, Energy and Geology of Lower Saxony (LBEG) has published the "Symbol Key Geology" in several editions for a uniform symbolization in geological maps, reports and databases:

• Symbolschlüssel Geologie (Schweizerbart´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart) - Aufschluss, Bohrtechnik, Schichtdaten. 4.Auflage. LBEG, Hannover (2015).

The German Stratigraphic Commission (DSK), a working group of the German National Committee (DNK) in the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), has developed a standardized stratigraphy table for the entire federal territory:

• 5. Stratigraphische Tabellen von Deutschland 2016 und 2002 (STDs)
• Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2016 (STDK 2016)
• International Stratigraphic Chart (ISC) of the IUGS

The International Commission on Stratigraphy of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is defining internationally agreed global stratigraphic units (systems, series, and stages) of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. These are the basis for the units (periods, epochs, and age) of the International Geologic Time Scale. The ICS is thus setting the standards for stratigraphical units worldwide.