Lithoprobe
Encyclopedia
Lithoprobe is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
national geoscience research project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada is a Canadian government agency that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering. Its mandate is to promote and assist research....
. Its aim is to research and map the lithosphere
Lithosphere
The lithosphere is the rigid outermost shell of a rocky planet. On Earth, it comprises the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousands of years or greater.- Earth's lithosphere :...
structure and composition. Lithoprobe derives from "probing the lithosphere".
Recently summarized in the GSA Today magazine, June 2011 issue.
Notable contributors
- Richard Lee ArmstrongRichard Lee ArmstrongRichard Lee “Dick” Armstrong was an American/Canadian scientist who was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension...
- Ronald M. ClowesRonald M. ClowesDr. Ronald M. Clowes, CM is an award winning professor specializing in seismic and other geophysical studies of the Earth’s lithosphere. For his work he has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada....
, Director (1987) - Hu GabrielseHu GabrielseHubert “Hu” Gabrielse is a Canadian geologist. He devoted much of his 50+ years in geosciences to regional geological mapping in the northern Cordillera of British Columbia, southeast Yukon Territory and southwest District of Mackenzie...
- Thomas Edvard KroghThomas Edvard KroghThomas Edvard "Tom" Krogh, FRSC was a geochronologist and a former curator for the Royal Ontario Museum. He revolutionized the technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating with the development of new laboratory procedures and analytical methodologies. His discoveries have yielded an unprecedented...
(1991–1996) - James MongerJames MongerJames W.H. Monger is an emeritus scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada and a world leader in the application of plate tectonics to the study of mountain chain formation....
- John Oliver WheelerJohn Oliver WheelerJohn Oliver Wheeler is an award-winning Canadian geologist and an emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada.-Family:Wheeler came from a family of geologists...
, lobbied for establishment of the project, Chairman of steering committee (two years) - Harold Williams