U.S.-Eastern Europe Earth Sciences Workshop on Mantle Dynamic Responses to Africa-Eurasia Collision in Covasna, Romania

INT 0002203 Flowers这个美国-东欧研讨会的主题是“地幔对非洲-欧亚碰撞的动态响应”，其特点是一个活跃的构造系统，包括潘诺尼亚、喀尔巴西亚和第纳里德地区(PANCARDI)。许多美国和欧洲专家认为，这一系统是为应对中第三纪至晚第三纪非洲-欧洲板块碰撞而产生的，潘卡迪地区是一个天然的、跨国的实验室，用于研究广泛的大陆内岩浆活动的原因。美国研讨会的组织者是芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的马丁·F·J·弗劳尔，罗马尼亚同行是布加勒斯特大学的维克托·I·莫卡努。他们打算召集一个来自美国和中东欧的跨学科小组，审查最近的研究结果，这些研究发现碰撞导致的地幔流动是岩石圈逃逸、火山弧回滚和盆地开放的驱动因素。研讨会将于2000年6月17日至21日在罗马尼亚科瓦斯纳的布加勒斯特北部举行。经过实地访问和研讨会讨论，来自美国、罗马尼亚、波兰、匈牙利、捷克和斯洛伐克共和国、德国和乌克兰的初级和高级地质学家、地球物理学家和模型师将制定新的跨学科研究协同作用，并完善包括地震横波分裂、地球化学同位素研究和数值模拟在内的后续合作研究项目的计划。这些结果应该会阐明下一步了解地球动力学演化和与碰撞有关的软流圈反应是玄武岩火山活动的原因。这一与大陆板块碰撞相关的地幔动力学研讨会实现了计划的目标，即通过使美国和东欧的专家能够在共同感兴趣和能力的领域结合互补的人才和共享研究资源来促进科学知识的发展。

INT 0002203FlowerThis U.S.-Eastern Europe workshop on "Mantle Dynamic Response to Africa-Eurasia Collision" features an active tectonic system encompassing the region of Pannonia, Carpathia, and Dinaride (PANCARDI). Many U.S. and European experts view this system, generated in response to the Mid-to Late-Tertiary Africa-European plate collision, and the PANCARDI region as a natural, transnational laboratory for examining the cause of widespread intro-continental magmatism. The U.S. workshop organizer, Martin F. J. Flower of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his Romanian counterpart, Victor I. Mocanu of the University of Bucharest, intend to bring together an interdisciplinary group from the United States and Central and Eastern Europe to examine recent research findings that point to collision-induced mantle flow as a driver of lithosphere escape, volcanic arc rollback and basin opening. The workshop will take place north of Bucharest in Covasna, Romania, during June 17-21, 2000.After site visits and workshop discussions, participating junior and senior geologists, geophysicists and modelers from the U.S., Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Germany and Ukraine will formulate new cross-disciplinary research synergies and refine plans for follow-on cooperative research projects that incorporate seismic shear-wave splitting, geochemical-isotope studies and numerical modeling. Results should clarify next steps for understanding geodynamic evolution and collision-related asthenospheric responses as causes of basaltic volcanism. This workshop on mantel dynamics associated with continental plate collisions fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Eastern Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of mutual interest and competence.