U.S. Program for the Geodynamics Project: Scope and Objectives

U.S. Geodynamics Committee, Geophysics Research Board, National Research Council

Penerbit : National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Tahun : 1973

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This report outlines the scope, objectives, and scientific framework of the United States’ participation in the international Geodynamics Project. It situates geodynamics within the broader revolution in earth sciences triggered by plate tectonics, emphasizing lithospheric motion, deformation, seismicity, volcanism, crustal structure, magnetic polarity history, properties of the Earth’s interior, and geodynamic modeling. The document is programmatic rather than textbook-like: it defines research priorities, institutional coordination, data exchange, and proposed national efforts involving universities, federal agencies, industry, and scientific societies. Its significance lies in showing how the United States planned to organize interdisciplinary solid-earth research in the 1970s, especially around plate boundaries, earthquakes, geothermal resources, mineral exploration, and long-term understanding of Earth-system dynamics.

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