The objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to provide a new framework for mineral exploration targeting. This requires detailed knowledge on the lithosphere-scale structure, including detailed knowledge of the crust, together with the improved and enhanced understanding of the impact of various plate tectonics and mantle dynamics processes on the lithosphere composition and architecture.
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The first major aim of this proposed Task Force is to extend the WSM database with a quality ranked compilation of stress magnitude data. In addition, the current WSM database only compiles the stress data for the upper 40 km of the Earth’s crust to represent the crustal stress. However, most of the global scale geodynamic models need to be calibrated with stress data on the deeper part of the Earth’s lithosphere. Therefore, as the second major aim of this proposed Task Force, we will systematically compile the lithospheric stress data.
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The objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to coordinate the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project in order to provide a quality controlled, authenticated global database of heat flow values and other thermal data. This project supports the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC) whose mission includes promoting geothermal research and maintaining and disseminating the Global Heat Flow Database to the global community of Earth Scientists. To this end, screening, assessing and updating of each data entry compiled in the Global Heat Flow Database since 1939 is required. All project collaborators contribute with the revision of selected papers in this process.
The main scientific objective of the proposed ILP Task Force is to collect and assess quantitative data on the first two-billion years of well-preserved geological records from the North China, and Pilbara Cratons, the ancient section of the Kaapvaal (Barberton and Ancient Gneiss Complex), and the few scattered Eoarchean crustal fragments, to place quantitative constraints on the timing and mechanism of the initiation of plate tectonics. This study will provide new insights into how the planet responded to a decrease in heat production, loss of heat from accretion, and decreasing energy from orbital dynamics.
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The objective of this Task Force is to better understand the mechanisms of the carbon effect on climate change by connecting the tectonic carbon cycle with surface processes and climate changes. We choose the Tethys belt as the study area. This Task Force will integrate multidisciplinary investigations to study dynamics at subduction and collision zones and convecting mantle, to better constrain the carbon influx and outflux, and to develop cutting-edge approaches to distinguish the carbon sources. Knowledge of past climate changes, especially the time since the Cenozoic, will help us to cope with the challenge of the deteriorative climate in the present day.
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2026-TF2 - Volcanotectonic process and new technologies: Lithosphere interactions from depth to the surface (Chairs: Alessandro Tibaldi, Italy; Agust Gudmundsson, UK; Federica Lanza, Switzerland; Athanas S. Macheyeki, Tanzania; Thomas Walter, Germany; 2026-2030)
This project focuses on the study of the processes that bring magma from the lithosphere to the surface.Shedding light on this topic requires an in-depth knowledge of the geometric development of the magma chamber and plumbing system, the material properties of magma and the surrounding lithospheric rocks, the associated stress fields, and their evolution.With the purpose of putting together all the possible factors that guide magma migration through the lithosphere, it is necessary to promote the collaboration among scientists with different skills, from different schools and countries, capable of pursuing this goal with new forces and technologies. We wish to facilitate the blending between classical Earth Science approaches and emerging methodologies.
2026-TF3 - Global pore pressure data - A new addition to the World Stress Map Project (Chairs: Mojtaba Rajabi, Australia; Michael Drews, Germany; Oliver Heidbach, Germany; Indira Shatyrbayeva, Germany; 2026-2030)
2026-TF6 - Sedimentary Basins (Chairs: Piotr Krzywiec, Poland; Xiumian Hu, China; 2026-2030)
The ILP Task Force VI Sedimentary Basins have reached its objectives successfully during the last 5 years (2021-2025). The continuation of the Task Force under new leadership intends to benefit and continue this successful activity with the same main objectives and some additional tasks. The focus of the Task Force 6 activities is to foster collaborations between academia, research institutes and industry in all domains relevant for the understanding of sedimentary basins, from regional to nano-scale, from the deep earth to near surface processes.
