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

认识到构造地质学和构造学研究的新机会，由于最近的技术发展、新的定量数据集以及概念和理论的进步而受到关注，促使研讨会考虑该领域科学的未来方向。这些新的机会也使该领域长期存在的问题成为焦点，这些问题涉及描述性方法与定量方法的相对优点，特定区域的案例研究与特定机制的实验研究，运动学与力学建模，以及历史与过程导向的目标。要求经费用于组织和开展研讨会，并编写和分发一份总结构造地质学和构造学研究新动向的白皮书。研讨会的参加者将编写白皮书，他们代表了该领域最广泛的学科意义上的学者群体。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研究的方向，它将提供有助于评估该领域拟议研究的智力价值的标准，它将有助于确定最快速进展和科学突破的调查领域和方法。它将为教师在课堂上选择主题和讨论方法提供指导。白皮书将以硬拷贝的形式分发给NSF EAR部门的专业人员，以及美国地质勘探局和美国能源部负责研究经费的适当专业人员。该白皮书将通过网站提供给GSA构造地质学和构造学部门的成员，以及AGU相关部门的成员。

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.