MARGINS Education and Planning Workshop:
Rupturing of Continental Lithosphere in the Gulf of California/Salton Trough regionSeptember 2000

to be held October 27-29, 2000,
Hotel Camino Real, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

MARGINS workshop on Rupturing of the Continental Lithosphere as applied to the Gulf of California/Salton Trough will be held October 27-29, 2000 at the Hotel Camino Real in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Participants in the workshop will examine the application and implications of crustal faulting, strain partitioning, and magma emplacement at a site of active continental rifting where there is a transition to initial seafloor spreading in the Gulf of California/Salton Trough region. The 2 1/2-day workshop, combining US, Mexican and other international expertise, will summarize past and present research on rifting and rifting problems in the Gulf of California/Salton Trough region. In addition, plans for coordinated research and an implementation strategy will be explored at the workshop by the participants, and subsequently passed on to NSF. For more detail follow this link!

 

Rupturing Continental Lithosphere:
A process-oriented approach to studying active extensional margins, December 1999

written by Garry Karner

"A two-day workshop funded by NSF will be held at Snowbird, Utah on 27-28 January, 2000 to formulate a science plan for the focused investigation of faulting, strain partitioning, and magma emplacement at sites of active continental rifting where there is a transition to initial seafloor spreading. This science plan will serve as one of the templates for NSF funding of the MARGINS Program. It will be used to nurture and accelerate important directions for future research and will contain strategies for accomplishing this research. Like the science plans for the three other MARGINS initiatives, it will specify sites for detailed (and possibly allied) interdisciplinary studies based on site criteria agreed upon at the workshop..."