ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau: 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake
Torsten Haberzettl
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography and Geology,
Physical Geography, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 16, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
Gerhard Daut
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Institute of Geography,
Physical Geography, Löbdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany
Nora Schulze
Department of Geosciences, Marine Technology and Environmental
Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Volkhard Spiess
Department of Geosciences, Marine Technology and Environmental
Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Junbo Wang
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
No. 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Liping Zhu
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
No. 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
the 2018 Nam Co workshop party
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Short summary
The Tibetan Plateau is of relevance as it provides water to a large portion of the Asian population. To define parameters for climate change scenarios it is necessary to improve the knowledge about past climatic changes in this area. Sedimentary archives like Nam Co provide the possibility to get such information. In order to explore opportunities of an ICDP drilling at Nam Co, 40 scientists met in May 2018. Everybody agreed on the need to drill this site with a sediment thickness > 1 km (> 1 Ma).
The Tibetan Plateau is of relevance as it provides water to a large portion of the Asian...