Thirty Years on the Committee of Sedimentology and Sedimentary Geology in China

Key words: 
• Chinese Committee of Sedimentology

Abstract: This paper reviewed the advances and achievements over the past thirty years of the Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (SMPG), Committee of Sedimentology (COS) and Committee of Sedimentary Geology (CSG) established in 1979 in China. Main contents involved in this paper include the establishment background of the committees and evolution of their organization framework; information about the conferences related to sedimentology hosted by the committees at home and abroad, which enhanced the academic progress in this field; more efforts focused on the international activities and put forward the exchange and development with the equivalent international organizations; Issued the academic journal Acta Sedimentologica Sinica which become one of important academic exchange platform within China over past twenty eight years.