2019-TF1- Lithosphere structure and mineral resources (Chair: I. Artemieva, Denmark; 2019-2023)

The objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to provide a new framework for mineral exploration targeting. This requires detailed knowledge on the lithosphere-scale structure, including detailed knowledge of the crust, together with the improved and enhanced understanding of the impact of various plate tectonics and mantle dynamics processes on the lithosphere composition and architecture.

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Volcanism is a geological process that has significant socio-economic implications due to its short and long term associated hazards, which include their direct impact but also potential global atmospheric effects. Therefore, understanding the causes and effects of volcanism is of major importance to minimise its risks. Deciphering how volcanism works and how we can anticipate the occurrence of volcanic eruptions, require first to fully understand how its main driving force, magma, forms, evolves and moves across the lithosphere.

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The first major aim of this proposed Task Force is to extend the WSM database with a quality ranked compilation of stress magnitude data. In addition, the current WSM database only compiles the stress data for the upper 40 km of the Earth’s crust to represent the crustal stress. However, most of the global scale geodynamic models need to be calibrated with stress data on the deeper part of the Earth’s lithosphere. Therefore, as the second major aim of this proposed Task Force, we will systematically compile the lithospheric stress data.

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2021-TF5 - Assessing the relationships between lithospheric processes and seafloor topography at oceanic hotspots and divergent margins (LithoMar) (Chair: A. Savini, Italy; 2021-2025)

2021-TF6 - Sedimentary Basins (Chairs: L. Matenco, Netherlands and F. H. Nader, France; 2021-2025)

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2021-TF8 - Lithospheric Heat Flow –  Global Data Assessment Project (Chair S. Fuchs, Germany; 2021-2025)

The objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to coordinate the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project in order to provide a quality controlled, authenticated global database of heat flow values and other thermal data. This project supports the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) whose mission includes promoting geothermal research and maintaining and disseminating the Global Heat Flow Database to the global community of Earth Scientists. To this end, screening, assessing and updating of each data entry compiled in the Global Heat Flow Database since 1939 is required. All project collaborators contribute with the revision of selected papers in this process.


2023-TF1 - Formation, character, history, and behavior of Earth’s oldest lithospheres (Chair: T. Kusky, China and T. M. Harrison, USA; 2023-2027)

The main scientific objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to collect and assess quantitative data on the first two-billion years of well-preserved geological records from the North China, and Pilbara Cratons, the ancient section of the Kaapvaal (Barberton and Ancient Gneiss Complex), and the few scattered Eoarchean crustal fragments, to place quantitative constraints on the timing and mechanism of the initiation of plate tectonics. This study will provide new insights into how the planet responded to a decrease in heat production, loss of heat from accretion, and decreasing energy from orbital dynamics.

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2024-TF1 - Lithospheric evolution and tectonic carbon cycle(Chairs:Rixiang Zhu, China; Zhengtang Guo, China; Manuele Faccenda, Italy; 2024-2028)

The objective of this Task Force is to better understand the mechanisms of the carbon effect on climate change by connecting the tectonic carbon cycle with surface processes and climate changes. We choose the Tethys belt as the study area. This Task Force will integrate multidisciplinary investigations to study dynamics at subduction and collision zones and convecting mantle, to better constrain the carbon influx and outflux, and to develop cutting-edge approaches to distinguish the carbon sources. Knowledge of past climate changes, especially the time since the Cenozoic, will help us to cope with the challenge of the deteriorative climate in the present day.

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