The Seventh INQUA Congress: The contribution to paleoclimatology

Abstract

The International Association for Quaternary Research (INQUA) is an organization devoted to interdisciplinary research on the Earth's natural environment and its history during the past million or so years (the Quaternary Epoch). Primarily by means of a series of international congresses, which INQUA endeavors to hold every four years, the organization seeks to bring together scientists from many nations and many fields of study to exchange viewpoints concerning the physical, chemical, and biological factors that control our present‐day natural environment, and concerning the history of changes in these environmental controls during the Quaternary.The Seventh International Congress of INQUA, which met chiefly in Boulder, Colorado, in late summer 1965, was in many respects a noteworthy event in the annals of paleoscience. Notwithstanding the fact that North America was the stage for many of the most spectacular events in the Quaternary, this was the first INQUA Congress ever to be held on our continent. With this in mind, an ambitious program of two‐week field trips was organized, offering hundreds of Congress participants a rare opportunity to examine at first hand the Quaternary record in all corners of the United States, in western Canada, and in Alaska. By no means did these field trips go unappreciated by our foreign visitors.