Workshop: New Departures in Structural Geology and Tectonics, September 2002, Denver

认识到最近的技术发展、新的量化数据集以及概念和理论的进步使构造地质学和构造学的研究获得了新的机会，促使举办了一次讲习班，以审议该领域未来的科学方向。这些新的机会也使这一研究领域长期存在的问题成为焦点，这些问题包括描述性方法与定量方法、特定区域的案例研究与特定机构的实验研究、运动学与机械建模以及历史目标与过程目标的相对优劣。需要资金来组织和开展讲习班，并编写和分发一份白皮书，概述在构造地质学和构造学研究方面的新动向。研讨会的参与者将编写白皮书，他们在最广泛的学科意义上代表了这一领域的学者群体。他们将征求同行和同事的意见和意见，以寻求对该领域未来科学方向的平衡和代表性的陈述。预计该白皮书将有助于确定未来十年构造地质学和构造学的研究方向，将提供标准以帮助评价这一领域拟议研究的学术价值，将有助于确定成熟的研究领域和方法，以便取得最迅速的进展和科学突破，并将指导教师选择专题和在课堂上讨论方法。白皮书将以硬拷贝的形式分发给NSF耳朵部门的专业人员，以及美国地质调查局和美国能源部负责研究资助的适当专业人员。该白皮书将通过一个网站提供给GSA构造地质和构造司的成员以及AGU适当分部的成员。

Recognition of new opportunities for research in structural geology and tectonics, brought into focus by recent technological developments, new quantitative data sets, and both conceptual and theoretical advances, motivate a workshop to consider the future directions of science in this field. These new opportunities also bring into focus long standing questions in this area of research about the relative merits of descriptive versus quantitative methods, case studies of particular regions versus experimental studies of particular mechanisms, kinematic versus mechanical modeling, and historical versus process-oriented objectives. Funding is requested to organize and carry out the workshop, and to prepare and distribute a white paper summarizing new departures for research in structural geology and tectonics. Participants in the workshop, who will prepare the white paper, represent the community of scholars in this field in the broadest disciplinary sense. They will solicit input and comments from peers and colleagues to seek balanced and representative statements about future scientific directions in this field. It is anticipated that the white paper will help to set the course of research in structural geology and tectonics in the next decade, that it will provide criteria to help evaluate the intellectual merits of proposed research in this area, that it will help identify areas of investigation and methodologies ripe for the most rapid advances and scientific breakthroughs, and that it will provide guidance to instructors for the selection of topics and the discussion of methodologies in the classroom. The white paper will be distributed in hard copy form to the NSF EAR Division professional personnel, and to appropriate professional personnel in charge of research grants at the USGS and the DoE. The white paper will be made available to members of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the GSA, and to members of appropriate divisions of the AGU through a website.