Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow, Russia

Global Geoscience Transects

The Geotraverse Project
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Within the framework of the joint Russia - Japan Geotraverse Project three deep geological/geophysical cross sections of the lithosphere and asthenosphere in the transition zone from Asian continent to the Pacific Ocean have been constructed.    There are    the Philippine Sea Geotraverse,    the Japan Sea Geotraverse,    and    the Okhotsk Sea Geotraverse.

Leaders of the joint Russia-Japan Geotraverse Project: Prof. A. G. Rodnikov (Geophysical Center RAS, Russia) and Prof. S. Uyeda (Earthquake Prediction Research Center, Japan).

The Data Base of the Pacific lithosphere digital models from these geotraverses is conctructed at the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow (Director Dr. N. A. Sergeyeva ) of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The computer data base includs primary geological and geophysical data, digital maps and cross sections of the lithosphere and asthenosphere along the Philippine Sea Geotraverse, Japan Sea Geotraverse and Okhotsk Sea Geotraverse.
The goals of the work: the study of the deep Earth structure beneath the seismic dangerous areas, sedimentary basins of the marginal seas, and regions of mineralization.

This Project was sponsored by Russian Foundation for Basic Research   ( RFBR   N 98-07-90201) in 1998-1999.

Leader of the Geotraverse Project:   Prof. Alexander G. Rodnikov,
Director of the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow:   Dr. Natalia A. Sergeyeva,
Geophysisist of the World Data Center for Solid Earth Physics, Moscow:   Dr. Ludmila P. Zabarinskaya,
Geophysical Center RAS, Molodezhnaya 3, 117296, Moscow, Russia

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