摘要:The technical session included four keynote presentations, starting with the talk by Dr. Pieter Vermeesch on “Beyond Isoplot: new software for better geochronology”. The second talk was by Dr. Christopher Spencer on “Redefining the geologic timescale of Earth’s middle age”. The third speech was by Dr. Andrea Festa on “Melange concept: Redef- inition, new classification and future prospects”. The fourth one was presented by Prof. Qiuming Cheng on “Singularity analysis of anomalous geological events during nonlinear processes in geosciences”.