R. M. Russo
Assistant Professor
223 Williamson Hall
phone: 2-6766
rrusso@ufl.edu
Office hours
MWF: 11:40-12:40
or by appointment
Geodynamics of Indochina and the South China Sea basin
Did the lithosphere comprising
today's Indochina peninsula extrude to the southeast due to India-Asia
collision? If so, what was the upper mantle response to collision
and lithospheric extrusion? A large group of like-minded
geoscientists has come together during the last decade to examine these
questions in some detail. The project has involved workers from
China, Vietnam, Thailand, Romania, Malaysia, the U.S. and the
Philippines, with workshops in Covasna, Romania, in 2000, at Ha Long
Bay, Vietnam, in 2002, and in Kunming, China,
in 2004, in addition to many gatherings of smaller
groups. Principle project participants include Martin F.J. Flower, Liz Widom, Mian Liu, Victor
Mocanu, Mo Xuanxue, Deng
Jinfu, Cung Thuong Chi, Nguyen Trong Yem,
Dinh Van Toan, Cuong Quoc Nguyen, Michio
Hashizumi, and Low Kong Chiew.
Visit the IGCP 430 Web Site
URL hereOur work in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos has
been sponsored by the Continental Dynamics Program of the U.S.
National Science Foundation, the Chinese National Science
Foundation, NATO, the Ministry of Science and Technology,
Vietnam, The University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand, and the
University of Buchrest, Romania.
