Workshop on the Assembly of Gondwana

一个名为“冈瓦纳“的超大陆的概念， 激发了人们的想象力，刺激了地球科学家的研究， 第一次提出大陆漂移的可能性。 的 冈瓦纳大陆的中新生代碎裂现在相当好 但是，超大陆的起源在很大程度上仍然是 只是推测而已 因为冈瓦纳构成了 大约占世界大陆地壳的一半， 冈瓦纳大陆的历史是人类历史的很大一部分， 古生代末期的“泛大陆”组合。 此外，委员会认为， 冈瓦纳古陆碎屑堆积时代和堆积顺序 重要的限制，努力破译的配置和 一个中晚元古代裂解史 超大陆（Rodinia）。 主要研究人员希望研究 通过组织协调的研究项目， 调查地理区域并使用被认为 特别有用。 作为一个开始，他们将举办一个研讨会， 确定既重要又需要 协调的方法。 他们组织了一个国际组织 拥有不同地理区域专业知识的科学家， 地球科学学科，并将在春季将它们聚集在一起 在1993年。 本次研讨会的主要目的是准备 进一步协调研究项目的建议。

The concept of a supercontinent, named "Gondwana, "has stirred the imaginations and stimulated the research of geoscientists since the first suggestion of the possibility of continental drift. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic fragmentation of Gondwana is now reasonably well understood, but the original of the supercontinent is still largely a matter of speculation. Because Gondwana constituted approximately one half of the world's continental crust, the history of assembly of Gondwana is a large part of the history of assembly of "Pangea" near the end of the Paleozoic. Furthermore, the age and sequence of accretion of fragments to Gondwana place important constraints on efforts to decipher the configuration and history of fragmentation of a middle-to-late-Proterozoic supercontinent ("Rodinia"). The principal investigators wish to study the assembly of Gondwana by organizing coordinated research projects that investigate geographic areas and use techniques that are regarded as particularly useful. As a start, they will hold a workshop to identify problems that are both important and require a coordinated approach. They have assembled an international group of scientists with expertise in various geographic areas and geoscience disciplines and will bring them together in the spring of 1993. The primary purpose of this workshop will be to prepare a proposal for further coordinated research projects.