Commission for the Geological Map of the World

When created, the CGME (Commission for the Geological Map of Europe) comprised 6 members, representing Austria, Germany, Hungary,France, Great Britain and Russia, and Berlin was proposed as the place for the headquarters.

The resolution on the project at the XIV IGC (1926, Madrid, Spain) on the discussion on problems of the geological maps of Europe and the World continued.

[6] The statutes of CGMW were established for the first time in 1966 and, after some revisions, finally stabilized[7] at the XXVI IGC (1980, Paris, France) and remain roughly unchanged since then (2024).

In addition, the considerable growth and greater reliability of geochronological techniques has provided better resolution of the main subdivisions of the Precambrian.

[11] The standard color codes for the geological timescale agreed by ICS (International Commission on Stratigraphy of the IUGS) are determined by CGMW.

In the frame of this new program, CGMW produced a 1:5M scale fully digital geological map of the continents and oceans of the world.