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Suggested Citation:"Part II: Reports of the Working Groups." National Research Council. 1989. Margins: A Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Processes Attending Lithospheric Extension and Convergence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1500.
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Suggested Citation:"Part II: Reports of the Working Groups." National Research Council. 1989. Margins: A Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Processes Attending Lithospheric Extension and Convergence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1500.
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PART I I REPORTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS As described in Part I of the report of the Continental Margins Workshop Committee, each of the six working groups was charged to define the single most important scientific objective within its focus, to determine needed studies, and to describe strategies for achieving its stated goals. With these general charges as its guide, each working group was free to approach its task with appropriate autonomy, refining or refocusing its objectives as it proceeded. The result is a difference in presentation from report to report without any attempt having been made by the workshop committee to impose consistency Of presentation for its own sake. The reader will find, however, that the findings set forth here and in Part I are congruent, although they may be worded differently or presented in different sequences.

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Approximately 70 percent of the world's population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental margins provides a detailed account of a meeting which brought together specialists in marine and terrestrial geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. The workshop garnered widespread support and enthusiasm for a new direction in margins research focused on interdisciplinary studies of the fundamental processes of continental margin evolution. Scientific problems and solutions were identified for both divergent and convergent margins. Results of the workshop show that many of the fundamental plate interaction processes are common to all margins, whether formed by extension, contraction, or translation. This conclusion suggests a unified approach to margins research. A margins initiative has been proposed to follow up on the workshop results by developing science programs aimed at understanding the processes that control the initiation and evolution of continental margins.

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