Priority research programme 1054 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Evolution of the System Earth in the Late Palaeozoic: Clues from Sedimentary Geochemistry funded the production of this stratigraphic chart. This research compared geochemical data from several continents using the same time scale and the same correlation chart. DCP 2003 correlates Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian biostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic units from Central and Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Tethys, South China, and North America both to each other and to the stages of the Global Stratigraphic Reference Scale (GSS) using a time resolution of up to 0.5 my. At the completion of project 1054 its geochemical results and the DCP 2003 (Menning et al. 2006; doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.058) were published in Volume 240 of PALAEO 3.

It is planned to finalize the work in 2009/10 by completing the global correlation chart including 50 regional sections and 50 biozonations.

Partner: Alexander S. Alekseev, Moscow State University, Boris I. Chuvashov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Vladimir I. Davydov, Boise State University, Idaho, Francois-Xavier Devuyst, Trinity College, Dublin, Holger C. Forke, Berlin, Tatiana A. Grunt, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Luc Hance, Carmeuse Coordination Center s.a., Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, Philip H. Heckel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Nadezhda G. Izokh, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Yu-gan Jin, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, Peter J. Jones, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Galina V. Kotlyar, V.S.E.G.E.I., St. Petersburg, Heinz W. Kozur, Budapest,Tamara I. Nemyrovska, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Jörg W. Schneider, Bergakademie Freiberg, Xiang-dong Wang, Academia Sinica, Nanjing Karsten Weddige, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M., Dieter Weyer, Berlin, David M. Work, Maine State Museum, Augusta