Terrestrial Vertical Movements in the DFG's planning docu­ ment Grauer Plan IV: 1972-1974; p. 152. Deliberations within the Na­ tional Committee for the International Geodynamics Project and in the Senate Commission for Joint Research in Earth Sciences (Geokommission) set out the scope of the project and envisaged an investigation of the Rheinische Schild, (i. e. , the Rhenish Massif east and west of the River Rhine). Seventeen geoscientists participated in a round-table dis­ cussion on the subject Vertical movements and their causes as exempli­ fied in the case of the Rheinische Schild, which took place at Bonn­ Bad Godesberg on 8th July 1975. At this meeting the scientific objec­ tives came more clearly into focus. A Programme Committee formulated the proposal to be put to the Senate of the DFG.