EUROPROBE News 9
EUROPROBE Projects:
EUROPROBE
today has a programme of ten projects. Those that started in the early 1990's are in full
swing, with a wide range of new research activities; others started later and are still
working with existing data and designing new experiments. The numerous PhD and post-Doc
projects, which are the heart of EUROPROBE research, will continue at least to the end of
the 1990's.
The
project presentations have been written by the project leaders in collaboration with the
participants in their various subprojects. Each presentation provides a project summary, a
general background, identification of outstanding features and, finally, concise
descriptions of the subproject research, on-going or planned. All subprojects are
collaborative ventures between western, central and eastern European partners that have
been discussed and defined at EUROPROBE workshops.
The
projects fall into three categories: "Key Projects", "Other Major
Projects" and "Developing Projects". "Key Projects"
are major collaborative ventures where most of the subprojects are operational and some
have completed major experiments or will start them in the near future. Orogenic processes
provide the focus for most of the "Key Projects". They are presented below in
order of "age" from on-going (PANCARDI), through Palaeozoic (URALIDES
and TESZ) to Palaeoproterozoic- Archaean (SVEKALAPKO). Intracratonic and
craton-margin basin evolution is the concern of the fifth key project (GEORIFT).
"Other Major Projects" include three projects, EUROBRIDGE, SW-IBERIA
and TIMPEBAR, in which the science plans are fully defined and research is making
substantial progress. "Developing Projects" include two (CAUCASUS
and KIMBERLITE), the former active, but suffering from the adverse political
situation in this part of southern Europe; and the latter, with a focus in Siberia, making
modest progress.
EUROPROBE's ten projects provide the basis for integrated, comparative
analysis of the contrasted signatures of the Continental Lithosphere and the processes
that control its generation and modification.
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| Key Projects |
| PANCARDI |
Dynamics of On-going Orogeny |
| URALIDES |
A Key to Understanding Collisional Orogenesis |
| TESZ |
Phanerozoic Accretion and the Evolution of Contrasting Continental
Lithosphere |
| SVEKALAPKO |
Evolution of Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean Lithosphere |
| GEORIFT |
Geodynamics of Intracratonic Rifting |
| Other Major Projects |
| EUROBRIDGE |
Palaeoproterozoic Accretion of Sarmatia and Fennoscandia |
| SW-IBERIA |
Transpressional Orogeny in the Variscides |
| TIMPEBAR |
Basement Control of Basin Evolution |
| Developing Projects |
| CAUCASUS |
Geodynamics of Collision-Related Basins |
| KIMBERLITE |
Structure and Evolution of Cratonic Lithospheric Roots |
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