中文摘要：

第17届国际沉积学大会于2006年8月27日至9月1日在日本福冈市召开。做为四年一次的国际沉积学盛会，大会讨论了微生物过程和沉积成岩作用、深海与陆缘沉积过程及产物、沉积记录与重大地质环境演化、火山一沉积大地构造，以及与人类活动密切相关的环境沉积学与资源问题等热点领域，其中大多将会继续成为未来若干年内国际沉积学的重要发展方向，并可能成为今后理论沉积学创新的重要生长点。但是在本次大会上，对陆相（或非海相）沉积与大陆构造、活动古地理、盆地流体动力学及相关成岩作用的研究并未形成热点。与国际沉积学研究强国相比，认为我国沉积学研究是危机与机会共存；我们不仅在服务国民经济方面，而且在国际沉积学前沿研究领域应该占有重要地位。

英文摘要：

The 17^th International Sedimentological Congress was held from August 27 to September 1,2006, in Fukuoka of Japan. As a pageant of international sedimentology, once four years, a series of academic topics were presented and discussed in different technical programs. More reports and sessions focus the following fields： microbial processes and sedimentation - diagenesis, sedimentary processes and products in deep seas and continental shelves, depositional records and global environmental changes, volcanic - sedimentary tectonics, and other environmental - resource problems on human activity, in which some will still be important research and development fields of international sedimentology and probably become important growing points of basic sedimentology in the near future. However, few research hotspots occurred from terrestrial （ non - marine） deposition and continental tectonics, active paleogeography, basinal fluid geodynamics and fluid - rock interaction in the congress. Compared with international sedimentological great powers, it is indicated that both conjuncture and opportunity coexist in the sedimentary development in China. Chinese sedimentologists should occupy important status in international sedimentological frontiers besides contributing their wisdom to national economic development.