Social Responsibility Award: Agita Hauka, Chairperson of the Board of the Latvian Farmers Federation; SIA Microtikls and Zigmunds Zalenko, Handyman of
Broceni Pre-school educational institution Musmajas and Youth Centre Kopa.
Moreover, the distribution and relationships of regional lithostratigraphical units corresponding to the Hirnantian in southern Estonia and Latvia (Kuldiga and Saldus formations, and Bernati, Edole, Piltene, and Broceni members) are still insufficiently understood.
The Porkuni Stage encompasses the Kuldiga and Saldus formations, both of which are subdivided into two members: Bernati and Edole, and Piltene and Broceni, respectively (Fig.
bulk] values decreasing to ca 3% in the top of the Piltene Member, and to nearly 2% in the top of the Broceni Member.
4 m) and in one sample from the Broceni Member (at 889.
1 m), and (4) the Broceni Member embracing a possibly reworked assemblage of chitinozoans, unknown in sections studied earlier (Nolvak 2001, 2003).
4 m, Broceni Member) is represented by three samples, one of which contains several species that are not recorded in underlying strata.
