中国地质学会第三次代表大会及第三十二屆学术年会于1962年12月18日至25日在北京召开。出席会議的有各省、市学会代表及在京地质学家150余人。大会的第一天,李四光理事长作了关于“华北平原西北边緣第四紀冰磧及冰前沉积”的学术演講,論証了第四紀在中国有冰川存在。这一研究,不仅具有重要的理論意义,而且对支援农业及解决一系列水文地质、工程地质等实际問題,也将 The Third Congress of the Geological Society of China and the 32nd Academic Annual Meeting were held in Beijing from December 18 to December 1962. Attending the meeting are representatives of provinces and municipalities and more than 150 geologists in Beijing. On the first day of the conference, Chairman Li Siguang gave a lecture on “Quaternary moraine and sediments before the ice on the northwestern margin of the North China Plain”, demonstrating the presence of glaciers in Quaternary in China. This research, not only has important theoretical significance, but also supports agriculture and solves a series of practical problems such as hydrogeology and engineering geology,