"The Ukraine Quaternery Explored: the Middle and Upper Pleistocene of the Middle Dnieper Area and its importance for East-West European correlation" was arranged in September 2001. The meeting included meeting sessions as well as a geological excursion . The Session were held under aegis of International Union for Quaternary Research, SubCommission on European Quarternary Stratigraphy (SEQS) INQUA Commission on Stratigraphy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Geological Sciences and Institute of Geography.

Two members of the Ukrainian working group of ProGEO Zhanna Matviishina and Natalia Gerasimenko took part in the operation of organizing committee and prepared Volume of abstracts (88 ones from 142 scientist) and Excursion Guide includes description of 8 geosites. 52 researchers from different countries of Europe (Belarus, Belgium, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, America (USA, Argentina, Brazil)) attended the meeting. Among the participants was 24 scientist from Ukraine

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In the sessions the following fields of quaternary geology was reviewed: loess stratigraphy, its correlation, paleopedology, paleoclimatology, Paleolithic archaeology, minerals, geological events, neotectonics, landforms and geomorphological processes, dating methods etc.

The excursion was held on the Key sections Middle and Upper Pleistocene of the Middle Dnieper Area.

Parts of these key sections will be proposed as Geosites of European importance:
· Mezhyrich and Dobranichivka Upper Paleolithic geosites,
· Kaniv glacial dislocations geosite,
· Veazivok one of the most complete Pleistocene sequences, showed on the cover sheet of Excursion guide.

We consider this excursion in an advising process concerning relevant objects by representatives of SEQS INQUA Commission on Stratigrahpy.

64 members including Thijs van Kolfschoten President SEQS and Peter Gozhik Head of organizing committee took part in the excursion. The introduced key sections received a high rating of the specialists.

Zhanna Matviishina,
Volodymyr Gritsenko,
Oleksandr Taranyuk.