Geodynamics Project: Initial developments in the U.S. Program

Abstract

The remarkable developments in geophysics and geology in the 1960's—the revolution in earth sciences—were the springboard of U.S. planning for the Geodynamics Project. The U.S. Geodynamics Committee was organized in the National Academy of Sciences under the Geophysics Research Board in collaboration with the U.S. National Committee for IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics), IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences), and SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research). After 3 years of extensive consultation the U.S. Geodynamics Committee issued a report in 1973, U.S. Program for the Geodynamics Project: Scope and Objectives. In 1974 the Federal Council for Science and Technology established a committee on the International Geodynamics Project to coordinate activities of the federal agencies in the Geodynamics Project.