Lithoprobe

Lithoprobe is a Canadian national geoscience research project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Its aim is to research and map the lithosphere structure and composition. Lithoprobe derives from "probing the lithosphere".

Recently summarized in the GSA Today magazine, June 2011 issue.

Notable contributors

• Richard Lee Armstrong
• Ronald M. Clowes, Director (1987)
• Hu Gabrielse
• Thomas Edvard Krogh (1991–1996)
• James Monger
• John Oliver Wheeler, lobbied for establishment of the project, Chairman of steering committee (two years)
• Harold Williams

External links

• Lithoprobe website
• Lithoprob atlas
• Lithoprobe Methodology
• Lithoprobe Data Archive
• GSA Today volume 21 Issue 6 (June 2011): The big picture: A lithospheric cross section of the North American continent