ReWARD Project (Ingv-MI-Italy) EGT-S brochure

ReWARD Project
Refraction/Wide-Angle Reflections Database

INGV-Italy
Unit of Milano

R/WAR italian deep seismic data

A short Brochure on the EGT Project, compiled by the Author.

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European Science Foundation
European Science Research Councils

EUROPEAN GEOTRAVERSE project (EGT): 1983-1990
the SOUTHERN Segment (EGT-S): 1983-1986

Summary
raw map of profiles (Italy and Tunisia)
TECTONOPHYSICS Special Issues on EGT
other EGT related articles
EGT Workshops
Data processing: guidelines and Processing Teams

EGT-S: short summary

HOW EGT BEGAN (*)

"During the 26th International Geological Congress (IGC) in Paris, 1980, it became apparent that European Earth Science needed to mobilise an international workforce to fill the huge gaps that existed in data and communication. European Earth science had a history of parochialism and national dogma that had led to heterogeneus data quality and differences in the interpretation of geology and geophysical properties within national borders. In addition, geophysicists and geologists were often unaware of each other's activities.
Following preliminary discussions in Zürich in October 1980, a small group of experts invited Professor St. Mueller (ETH Zürich -CH) to create and realize such a workforce. Subsequently a Working Group (WG) was set up by the European Science Research Councils (ESRC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF), chaired by Dr. P.Fricker (SNSF Bern-CH), composed of scientists and administrators nominated by the interested Member Organisations. At a meeting in Zürich in February 1981, financed by the SNSF, it was decided to call toghether a group of national science funding agency advisers to draw up a project to be proposed as an 'Additional Activity' to the ESF. The central theme of this project was to be the nature and evolution of the continental Lithosphere (the Earth's crust and upper mantle) of Europe. Later the same year, in summer 1981, the WG set out to invite, screen, and evaluate proposals for specific projects, and integrate them into a coherent programme.

The WG agreed that the best way to investigate the Lithosphere would be to focus attention along a transect across the major tectonic elements of Europe, in order to gather information of all kinds along its length in a consistent and compatible manner.

Thus the European Geotraverse (EGT) was formulated to cross, in a single pathway from North Cape, Norway, to Central Tunisia, the range of crustal units involved in each of the major orogenic events from the oldest, of Archaean age, in northern Scandinavia, to the present day activity of the Mediterranean region. For practical purpouses, the Geotraverse was dividei into a Northern, Centralò and Southern Segment, and special attention was given to the boundary regions between them.

The WG set up a Scientific Coordinating Committee (SCC), chaired by Professor Mueller, to be responsible for the direction, organisation and coordination of EGT.

The research programme was formulated in terms of a 'Joint Programme' of 13 experiments supported by a series of 'Regional Studies'. On the recommendations of the ESRC, this Programme was adopted as an 'Additional Activity' by the ESF Assembly in November 1982, to begin on 1 January 1983 and to last five to seven years"

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This is the 'How EGT began' chapter in the EGT - FINAL REPORT, edited by ESF (Strasbourgh, 1980):

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European Geotraverse Project : 1983-1990 - Final Report
(edited by ESF, 1990 and printed by IREG, Strasbourg, in November 1990. publication N. 903606, 69 pages).

It's cover shows the main European Units. The green lines indicates the main deep investigations carried out in the frame of the EGT surveys.

Dr. Roy Freeman has been the last responsible for the SCC of the EGT, from April 1, 1986 up to the end of the Project in the 1990, and helped very much also in select and prepare the papers for this Report.. We present here a short summary, with special regard to the Southern segment of the Traverse, from the Alps to Tunisia. For this transect we have been responsible for the data processing and compilation ⁽²⁾, in collaboration with Genoa, Berlin, Zürich and Karlsruhe Universities. (The Southern segment begins from the Southern Alps, then continues to the South, crossing the Po Plain, to the Northern Apennines, Ligurian Sea, Corsica, Sardinia, Sardinia channel and Tunisia).
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Here you can see SOME pages, as a short brochure. Click on each of them, to see better.

A Lithosphere CROSS-SECTION	the 'Joint Programme'	the global raw Map	the Southern Segment EGT-S - 1 -	EGT-S - 2 -
EGT-S - 3 -	EGT-S - 4 -	EGT-S - 5 -	EGT-S - 6 -	EGT-S - 7 -
EGT-S - 8 -	EGT-S - 9 -	EGT Workshops - 1 -	EGT-WS - 2 -	EGT-SYMPOSIA
EGT-PUBLICATIONS	ACRONYMS	WG & SCC

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8 TECTONOPHYSICS

special Issues on EGT

Volumes	EGT Part	Papers	Year	Editors
Volume 126 - No. 1	1	[ 4 ]	June 1, 1986	D.A.GALSON and St. MUELLER
Volume 128 - No. 3-4	2	[ 11 ]	Sept. 15, 1986	D.A.GALSON and St. MUELLER
Volume 142 - No. 1	3	[ 7 ]	Oct. 15, 1987	R.FREEMAN and St. MUELLER
Volume 150 - No. 3	4	[ 3 ]	Aug. 1, 1988	R.FREEMAN, A.BERTHELSEN and St.MUELLER
Volume 162 - No. 1-2	5	[ 9 ]	May 10, 1989	R.FREEMAN, M. von KNORRING, C.LUND and St.MUELLER
Volume 176 - No. 1-2	6	[ 14 ]	Apr. 20, 1990	R.FREEMAN and St. MUELLER
Volume 195 - No. 2-4	7	[ 21 ]	Sept. 1, 1991	R.FREEMAN and St. MUELLER
Volume 207 - No. 1-2	8	[ 11 ]	June 30, 1992	R.FREEMAN and St. MUELLER
Volume 314 - No. 1-3	-	[ 19 ]	Dec. 10, 1999	H. THYBO, T. PHARAOH, A. GUTERCH

other selected Articles on EGT:

Author(s)	Journal	Title	Volume/No/Year	pages	Web
Monika E. Huch	International Journal of Earth Sciences	Crustal features of some main suture zones along the EGT	77/3/1988	777-786	[Springer]
C.Peirce, P.J.Barton	Marine Geophysical Researches	Southern Segment of the EGT - a wide angle seismic refraction experiment in the Sardinia Channel	14/3/1992	227-248	[Springer]
K.Holliger, E.Kissling	Geophysical Journal Intern.	Gravity interpretation of a unified 2-D acoustic image of the central Alpine collision zone	111/2/1992	213-225	[Blackwell]
S.Mueller, E.Banda	The Leading Edge	The European Geotraverse	3/2/1984	40-42	[geoscience]
C.Prodehl, B.Aichroth	Terra Nova	Seismic investigations along the European Geotraverse and its surroundings in Central Europe	4/1/1992	14-24	[Blackwell]
S.Bowler	Newscientist.com	Slicing through a continent: For the first time geophysicists have modelled a cross section through Europe's continental plate.	1769/1991	39	[newscientist]
S.Mueller, J.Ansorge	Annual Reviews.org	The crustal structure of western Europe	17/1989	335-360	[AR]
---	Eucor-Urgent network	Latest version of the European Moho	MAP ver. 1.3	--	[eucor]
N.Okaya, R.Freeman, E.Kissling, St.Mueller	Geophysical Journal International	A Lithospheric Cross-Section through the Swiss Alps-I. Thermokinematic Modelling of the Neoalpine Orogeny	125/2/1996	504-518	[Blackwell]

BOOKS on EGT:

Editors	Year	pages	Title	web
Blundell D., Freeman R., Mueller S.	1992	287	A Continent Revealed	Cambridge catalog

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5 EGT Workshop Proceedings
edited by the ESF, with the aid of the Commission of the European Comunities.

Table of Content of the Proceedings of 5 EGT Workshops (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th). Sorry for the lack of the 1st Workshop's material, which was held in Copenhagen -October 1983- and was focused on the NORTHERN Segment.
2nd EGT WORKSHOP Venice, 7-9 February 1985 the SOUTHERN Segment (D.A.Galson, St.Mueller eds.)	3rd EGT WORKSHOP Bad Honnef, 14-16 April 1986 the CENTRAL Segment (R.Freeman, St.Mueller, P.Giese eds.)	4th EGT WORKSHOP Utrecht, 11-12-March 1988 the Upper MANTLE (G.Nolet, B.Dost eds.)	5th EGT WORKSHOP Estoril, 11-12 November 1988 the IBERIAN peninsula (E.Banda, L.A.Mendes-Victor eds.)	6th EGT WORKSHOP Einsiedeln, 29/9-5/12 1989 Data compilations and synoptic interpretation (R.Freeman, St.Mueller eds.)
5 EGT Earth Science Study Centre the last Earth Science Study Centre proceedings is shown (the only volume published).
1st EGT STUDY CENTRE Møn (DK) 4-25/11/1985 EUGENO-S profiles	2nd EGT STUDY CENTRE Espoo (SF) 5-22/11/1986 the POLAR profiles	3rd EGT STUDY CENTRE Gradisca d'Isonzo (I) 23/2-8/3/1988 the SOUTHERN Segment	4th EGT STUDY CENTRE Rauischholzhausen I (D) 26/3-7/4/1989 the CENTRAL segment	5th EGT STUDY CENTRE Rauischholzhausen II (D) 26/3-7/4 1990 the EUROPEAN GEOTRAVERSE: Integrative Studies (R.Freeman, P.Giese, St.Mueller eds.)

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EGT data Processing:

Guidelines for the compilation of the EGT DSS data (by J.Ansorge and R.Freeman, ETH-Zürich)

Open file Reports with data compilations:

Buness H. (1990). A compilation of data from the 1983 EGT experiment, from the Ligurian Sea to the Southern Alps. Open file, F.U. D-Berlin (30 pp. + 45 plates)
Hauser F., Prodehl C., Schimmel M. (1990). A compilation of data from the FENNOLORA 1979 Seismic refraction experiment. Open-file Report 2/90; UNI Karlsruhe, Geoph. Inst.; 12 pp + 114 plates.
Egger A. (1990). A comprehensive compilation of seismic refraction Data along the Southern Segment of the EGT, from the Northern Apennines to the Sardinia Channel (1979-1985). Open-file Report CH-ETH, Zürich, (part I: 108 pp., part II: 202 plates)
Maistrello M., Scarascia S., Corsi A., Egger A., Thouvenot F. (1990). EGT 1985 Southern Segment - Compilation of Data from the seismic refraction experiments in Tunisia and Pelagian Sea. Open file Report 11/90, CNR-IGL, I-Milan (part I: 115 pp., part II: 79 plates)
Aichroth B., Ye S., Feddersen J., Maistrello M., Pedone R. (1990). A compilation of Data from the 1986 EGT experiment (main line) from Genova to Kiel. Open-file Report 90-1, Uni. D-Karlsruhe (part I: 115 pp., part II: 89 plates)
Pedone R. (1990). Analisi ed intrepretazione di alcuni profili sismici D.S.S. della campagna EGT-'86 (Southern Segment). PhD thesis, Uni.I-Genoa, Earth Sciences dept., 154 pp.
Maistrello M., Scarascia S., Ye S., Hirn A. (1991). EGT 1986 Central Segment: Compilation of seismic Data (additional profiles and fans) in Northern Apennines, Po Plain, Western and Southern Alps. Open-file Report 2/91, CNR-IGL, I-Milan (part A: 24 pp., part B: 56 plates)

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Crustal features of some main suture zones along the EGT

Southern Segment of the EGT - a wide angle seismic refraction experiment in the Sardinia Channel

Gravity interpretation of a unified 2-D acoustic image of the central Alpine collision zone

Seismic investigations along the European Geotraverse and its surroundings in Central Europe

Slicing through a continent: For the first time geophysicists have modelled a cross section through Europe's continental plate.