International Progress in Probing the Earth's Lithosphere and Deep Interior: A Review
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    To explore the interior structure and composition of the Earth, the habitat of our humankind, constitutes the ambition and pursuit of geologists and geophysicists for long. This article presents the research outlines and some results of major international deep probe programs worldwide since the 1970s, including the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) and EarthScope (USA), EUROPROBE (Europe), DEKORP (Germany), the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate (BIRPS), CROP (Italy), NRP20 (Switzerland), LITHOPROBE (Canada), AGCRC, Glass-Earth and AuScope (Australia), and so on. Based on the briefly retrospection of the historic deep exploration in China, the recently launched National Scientific Program of China titled as "Deep Exploration Technology and Experimentation" (ab. as SinoProbe) is introduced briefly, including its objectives and work plan of standard magnetotellurics observational and geochemical grid networks, integrated deep exploration experiments in North and South China regions, four corridor geophysical and geochemical explorations, and multiple integrated exploration sites. It is prospected that the deep exploration into the deep interior beneath the Chinese continent has its bright future.

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DONG Shuwen, LI Tingdong, GAO Rui, Lǖ Qingtian, WU Zhenhan, CHEN Xuanhua, ZHOU Qi, LIU Gang, LIU Zhiqiang, MEI Lin.2010. International Progress in Probing the Earth's Lithosphere and Deep Interior: A Review[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica,84(6):743-770

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  • Received:January 14,2010
  • Revised:April 12,2010
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