European Science Foundation extends major lithospheric study effort

Abstract

EUROPROBE, the major European lithosphere initiative of the 1990s, will continue as a European Science Foundation (ESF) research program until 2001. This was decided at the last ESF General Assembly in November 1997. EUROPROBE was conceived as a Regional Coordinating Committee of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) in 1984 and was accepted as an ESF program in 1992. Since then, EUROPROBE has grown steadily into its present role as a main vehicle of European research into the continental lithosphere, its structure, and evolution [Gee and Zeyen, 1996]. Today, nearly 1000 scientists from western, central, and eastern Europe and a few from the United States are participating actively in EUROPROBE projects.