| Description | The Association had evolved from a feeling widely felt among geochemists that their specialist needs were not adequately catered for in the various international scientific meetings currently held. A Geochemical Society had been formed in the United States which was open to international membership but there was strong opinion outside America that this did not fulfil the need for an international organization. At an informal meeting of geochemists held in New Delhi during the last Geological Congress in 1964 a large majority held the view that a new Association should be formed; as a result of this meeting a working group under the Chairmanship of Dr Earl Ingerson met in Paris in 1965 and drafted statutes. The Chairman further reported that he had been present at this meeting and had provisionally been appointed Treasurer of the newly formed Association.
At a meeting of the IUGS Executive Committee in January 1967 the IAGC had been accepted for affiliations to the Union, for ratification at Prague in 1968. There would be meetings of the Council of IAGC, which he hoped to attend, in Paris on 8 and 11 May during the forthcoming symposium, and in Zurich during the General Assembly of IUGG later in the year. The first General Assembly of IAGC would be held during the International Geological Congress in Prague in 1968.
On 21 September 1977 the Subcommittee was reconstituted as it had not met for nearly 10 years, and its terms of reference revised.
Minutes of meetings;
1. 21 March 1967
2. 4 December 1967
3. 21 September 1977
4. 6 February 1978
5. 14 March 1978
6. 15 November 1978
7. 28 March 1979
8. 16 October 1979
9. 23 June 1980
10. 16 February 1981
11. 24 November 1981
12. 16 February 1983
13. 5 April 1984
14. 25 June 1985
15. 22 January 1986 |