Conference on "Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling and Heat Budget"; Island of Naxos, Greece; FAll 2007

2007年10月9日至13日，在希腊纳克索斯岛举行了一场广泛的国际会议，题为“扩展大陆：建筑、流变耦合和热量预算”。最近的两项技术创新对未来的研究方向产生了强烈的影响，因此迫切需要在这一领域召开这次会议。这包括(1)对主动伸展的高精度大地测量研究，以及(2)计算速度的发展，允许对具有完全耦合的弹性、粘性和塑性流变的裂谷系统进行二维和三维物理建模。会议的目标是：(1)回顾和综合目前关于大陆伸展过程的知识；(2)根据地震成像、变质和岩浆岩石学、同位素热年代学、构造和运动学分析、同造地地层学、地貌学和古高程数据，研究与解决重要构造过程定量认识相关的地质和地球物理证据；(3)考察相关地球动力学模型及其对可能触发大陆伸展的条件的预测；(4)将岩石圈内流变耦合的新大地测量数据和计算地球动力学推断与这些过程的真实构造观测相协调。这次会议将促进研究方面的国际合作，以及对学生、早期职业科学家和来自代表性不足群体的科学家的支持。

A broad-based, international conference entitled 'Extending a Continent: Architecture, Rheological Coupling and Heat Budget' is being held October 9-13, 2007 on the Island of Naxos in Greece. The urgency for this conference in this field is borne of two recent technological innovations that bear strongly on future research directions. These include (1) high precision geodetic studies of active extension, and (2) the development of computational speed that permits two and three-dimensional physical modeling of rift systems with fully coupled elastic, viscous and plastic rheologies. The goals of the conference are to: (1) review and synthesize current knowledge about continental extension processes; (2) examine the geologic and geophysical evidence relevant to resolving a quantitative understanding of the important tectonic processes, as deduced from seismic imaging, metamorphic and magmatic petrology, isotopic thermochronlogy, structural and kinematic analysis, synorogenic stratigraphy, geomorphology, and paleoelevation data; (3) examine relevant geodynamic models and their predictions for conditions that might trigger the onset of continental extension; and (4) reconcile new geodetic data and computational geodynamics inferences on rheological coupling within the lithosphere with genuine structural observation of these processes. The conference will foster international collaboration in research as well as support of students, early career scientists, and scientists from underrepresented groups.