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，在希腊的纳克索斯岛举行了一个基础广泛的国际会议，题为“扩展大陆：建筑、流变耦合和热预算”。本次会议在这一领域的紧迫性是由两个最近的技术创新，对未来的研究方向有很大的影响。其中包括（1）高精度的大地测量研究的积极扩展，和（2）的计算速度的发展，允许二维和三维物理模型的裂缝系统与完全耦合的弹性，粘性和塑性流变。会议的目标是：（1）审查和综合有关大陆伸展过程的现有知识;（2）审查与解决重要构造过程的定量理解有关的地质和地球物理证据，这些证据来自地震成像、变质和岩浆岩石学、同位素热年代学、构造和运动学分析、同造山地层学、地貌学和古高程数据;（3）审查有关的地球动力学模型及其对可能触发大陆伸展开始的条件的预测;（4）将新的大地测量数据和关于岩石圈内流变耦合的计算地球动力学推论与这些过程的真正结构观测相协调。会议将促进研究方面的国际合作，并支持学生，早期职业科学家和代表性不足的群体的科学家。

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.