Nineteen members of the Working Group attended the meeting and constituted a good representation in experience, variety of specialist knowledge of disciplines within geology, and first-hand knowledge of appropriate global stratigraphy. The following resolutions as a whole were accepted, as an account of the meeting by those present, with a large majority. The minority of four who did not accept Resolution I requested that the Minority View (see below) should be recorded but it was decided not to include it in the Resolutions.