A 500,000-year-long sediment archive drilled in eastern Anatolia.

Litt, Thomas, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Cagatay, M. Namik, Kipfer, Rolf, Krastel, Sebastian, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich and Sturm, Michael (2011) A 500,000-year-long sediment archive drilled in eastern Anatolia. Open Access Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 92 (51). pp. 477-479. DOI 10.1029/2011EO510002.

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Abstract

Sedimentary archives host a wealth of information that can be used to reconstruct paleoclimate as well as the tectonic and volcanic histories of specific regions. Long and continuous archives from the oceans have been collected in thousands of locations by scientific ocean drilling programs over the past 40 years. In contrast, suitable continental archives are rare because terrestrial environments are generally nondepositional and/or subject to erosion. Lake sediments provide ideal drilling targets to overcome this limitation if suitable lakes at key locations have existed continuously for a long time.

Document Type: Article
Keywords: Paleoceanography; Lake Van; Turkey; lacustrian sediments; paleoclimatology; The Lake Van Drilling Project
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB4 Dynamics of the Ocean Floor > FB4-MUHS
OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB4 Dynamics of the Ocean Floor > FB4-JRG-B4 Submarine Hazards
Refereed: No
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: AGU (American Geophysical Union)
Projects: PaleoVan
Date Deposited: 10 Jan 2012 08:42
Last Modified: 10 Feb 2017 13:16
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/13334

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