EGT Project

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The European Geotraverse (EGT) has been planned as a major geoscience project that will run for 5–7 years involving collaborative efforts of geophysicists, geologists, penologists, geodesists, and other geoscientists from different European countries. A first draft proposal was elaborated in 1981 by a Working Group of the European Science Research Councils (ESRC), a standing committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF); it was subsequently modified following the amendments requested by the ESRC and was finally approved by the General Assembly of the ESF on November 9, 1982.The broad aim of the EGT is to secure an understanding of how the continental lithosphere formed and reacted to changing physical and geometric conditions through time. One of the best locations for such a study is Europe because it is made up of a number of tectonic provinces ranging in succession from the oldest Precambrian areas of Scandinavia to the currently active area of the Mediterranean. The concept of a geotraverse has been chosen in order to provide a continuous, integrated study of sufficient scale to cross this whole region like a swathe that will give new information about the dynamics and vertical and lateral variations of the lithosphere, both within and between adjacent provinces.

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