About MARGINS


What is MARGINS?

Continental margins are the Earth's principal loci for producing hydrocarbon and metal resources, for earthquake, landslide, volcanic and climatic hazards, and for the greatest population density. Despite the societal and economic importance of margins, many of the mechanical, fluid, chemical and biological processes that shape them are poorly understood. Progress is hindered by the sheer scope of the problems and by the space and time scales as well as the complexities of the processes. To overcome these obstacles, the earth science community has identified the outstanding scientific problems in continental margins research and the MARGINS Program is promoting research strategies that redirect traditional approaches to margin studies. In particular, the MARGINS Program will focus on the coordinated, interdisciplinary investigation of four fundamental initiatives; the Seismogenic Zone Experiment, the Subduction Factory, Rupturing Continental Lithosphere, and Sediment Dynamics and Strata Formation (Source to Sink). Each initiative is associated with two focus sites, research locations selected by the community to address the complete range of field, experimental and theoretical studies, over the full range of spatial and temporal scales needed to address fundamental questions associated with each initiative. The MARGINS Focus Sites are shown on this web page. The MARGINS Program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and is driven by input from, and interaction with the earth science community:

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MARGINS Office
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Seismology Geology and Tectonophysics
61 Route 9W-PO BOX 1000
Palisades, NY 10964-8000

Phone: 845-365-8711  

e-mail: margins @ nsf-margins.org

The MARGINS Office is now in transition and will become the GeoPRISMS Office, hosted at Rice University, after 1st October 2010. During this transition period, the following listserv and sign-up functionality will be unavailable. These functions will return once the GeoPRISMS Office is in place at Rice.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. (OCE20-25294). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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The MARGINS Office is Hosted by Columbia University

Last updated Monday, September 27, 2010