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3. Scientific Themes
3.1. INTRODUCTION
3.2. CLIMATE, ASTRONOMICAL FORCING, AND CHAOS
3.2.1. Introduction. P. E. Olsen
3.2.2. Cyclicity, Climate, and Time scales.
P. E. Olsen
3.2.3. Astronomical forcing and Chaos.
J. Laskar
3.2.4. Climate Model - Data Discrepancies.
P. E. Olsen
3.3. PANGEAN BREAKUP
3.3.1. Rift Basin Architecture and Evolution,
R. W. Schlische & M. O. Withjack
3.3.2. Extracting Tectontic Information from
Cores in Rift Basins, R. W. Schlische
3.3.3. Large Igneous Provinces, M. Coffin
3.4 BIOTIC CHANGE IN A HOT HOUSE WORLD
3.4.1. Introduction. P. E. Olsen
3.4.2. Global Climate and Phytogeography, A. M.
Zeigler
3.4.3. Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, H.-D. Sues
3.5. INTEGRATED, HIGH-RESOLUTION TIME SCALES FOR THE EARLY MESOZOIC
3.5.1. Introduction.
D. V. Kent
3.5.2. Time
and Paleolatitudes. D. V. Kent
3.5.3. Cyclostratigraphy
and Astronomical Calibration. P. E. Olsen
3.5.4. Biostratigraphy
and Biogeography. P. E. Olsen
4. Science Focus Areas
4.1. LATITUDINAL TRANSECTS
4.1.1.
Introduction
4.1.2. Equatorial
Tropics (0°-10°)
4.1.3. Arid
Belt and Adjacent Oceans (10°-30°)
4.1.4. Middle
and High Latitudes (30°-90°)
4.2. MAGMATISM, DRIFTING, AND RIFTING
4.2.1. Basin
Evolution (Supercontinent Breakup)
4.2.2. Central
Atlantic Magmatic Province (LIP)
4.3. TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BIOTIC TURNOVER
5. Possible Target Areas
5.1. Western
Equatorial Pangea (Colorado Plateau)
5.2. East Greenland
5.3. Fundy-Morocco
5.4. Germanic Basin
5.5. Sicilian Basin
5.6. Seaward Dipping Refectors (Southeastern US)
5.7. Other Areas
6. Coring Modalities
6.1. Continental Coring Transects
6.2. COMPLEX
AND
THE PANGEAN CORING TRANSECT, J. Austin
7. Action Items
6.1. Propose to NSF/ICDP to core Greenland
6.2. Letter of intent to ODP for Seaward Drilling Reflectors (jack up?
Moru?
6.3. Letter of intent to ODP/ICDP for Fundy basin
6.4. Proposal to NSF for Colorado Plateau
6.5. Forge linkages to other programs, e.g. German Consortium
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