Paleonet: New Epoch name convention?

[Elizabeth Petsios]

Hello,


Through our recent interactions with a journal's copyediting process, we've
been told that the new convention as of January 2015 for the names of
epochs (e.g. Early Triassic, Middle Jurassic, etc), are now to be lower
case (e.g. early Triassic, middle Jurassic, etc.), according to the
International
Commission on Stratigraphy's International Chronostratigraphic Chart
(version 2015/01).

We haven't heard of this previously and were somewhat surprised. Has anyone
else experienced this? Is the proper way to refer to the Early Triassic now
Lower Triassic?


Thank you,
-Elizabeth

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*Elizabeth Petsios*
Graduate Student
University of Southern California
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<petsios at usc.edu>  (213)740-5818
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