Information on the 17th International Sedimentological Congress held from August 27 to September 1, 2006, in Fukuoka, Japan
is offered. The principal topics, sessions, and plans for future investigations, especially drilling on continents and in
oceans with the new Japanese drilling ship
Chikyu, are elucidated.
Key words sedimentology - climate - tectonics - drilling
Original Russian Text © G.L. Kirillova, 2007, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2007, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 110–114.