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Report of the panel on plate motion and deformation, section 2Given here is a panel report on the goals and objectives, requirements and recommendations for the investigation of plate motion and deformation. The goals are to refine our knowledge of plate motions, study regional and local deformation, and contribute to the solution of important societal problems. The requirements include basic space-positioning measurements, the use of global and regional data sets obtained with space-based techniques, topographic and geoid data to help characterize the internal processes that shape the planet, gravity data to study the density structure at depth and help determine the driving mechanisms for plate tectonics, and satellite images to map lithology, structure and morphology. The most important recommendation of the panel is for the implementation of a world-wide space-geodetic fiducial network to provide a systematic and uniform measure of global strain.
Document ID
19910012278
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bock, Yehuda (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kastens, Kim A. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Mcnutt, Marcia K. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Minster, J. Bernard (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Peltzer, Gilles (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Prescott, William H. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Reilinger, Robert E. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Royden, Leigh (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rundle, John B. (Sandia National Labs. Albuquerque, NM., United States)
Sauber, Jeanne M. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Solid Earth Science in the 1990s. Volume 2: Panel Reports
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
91N21591
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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