Science report
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02 Dec 2019
Science report |
| 02 Dec 2019
| 02 Dec 2019
Scientific drilling of Lake Chalco, Basin of Mexico (MexiDrill)
Large Lakes Observatory & Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA
Margarita Caballero
Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Enrique Cabral Cano
Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Peter J. Fawcett
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Socorro Lozano-García
Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Beatriz Ortega
Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Liseth Pérez
Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische
Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Antje Schwalb
Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische
Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Victoria Smith
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, OX1 3TG, Oxford, UK
Byron A. Steinman
Large Lakes Observatory & Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA
Mona Stockhecke
Large Lakes Observatory & Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA
Blas Valero-Garcés
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Agencia Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Avda Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Sebastian Watt
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK
Nigel J. Wattrus
Large Lakes Observatory & Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812, USA
Josef P. Werne
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Thomas Wonik
Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik, Stilleweg 2, 30655
Hannover, Germany
Amy E. Myrbo
LacCore and Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Anders J. Noren
LacCore and Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ryan O'Grady
LacCore and Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Douglas Schnurrenberger
LacCore and Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities,
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
the MexiDrill Team
A full list of authors and their affiliations appears at the end of the paper.
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James M. Russell, Philip Barker, Andrew Cohen, Sarah Ivory, Ishmael Kimirei, Christine Lane, Melanie Leng, Neema Maganza, Michael McGlue, Emma Msaky, Anders Noren, Lisa Park Boush, Walter Salzburger, Christopher Scholz, Ralph Tiedemann, Shaidu Nuru, and the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium
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Mikhail Y. Verbitsky, Michael E. Mann, Byron A. Steinman, and Dmitry M. Volobuev
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Florence Sylvestre, Mathieu Schuster, Hendrik Vogel, Moussa Abdheramane, Daniel Ariztegui, Ulrich Salzmann, Antje Schwalb, Nicolas Waldmann, and the ICDP CHADRILL Consortium
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Paul E. Olsen, John W. Geissman, Dennis V. Kent, George E. Gehrels, Roland Mundil, Randall B. Irmis, Christopher Lepre, Cornelia Rasmussen, Dominique Giesler, William G. Parker, Natalia Zakharova, Wolfram M. Kürschner, Charlotte Miller, Viktoria Baranyi, Morgan F. Schaller, Jessica H. Whiteside, Douglas Schnurrenberger, Anders Noren, Kristina Brady Shannon, Ryan O'Grady, Matthew W. Colbert, Jessie Maisano, David Edey, Sean T. Kinney, Roberto Molina-Garza, Gerhard H. Bachman, Jingeng Sha, and the CPCD team
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S. Jasechko, A. Lechler, F. S. R. Pausata, P. J. Fawcett, T. Gleeson, D. I. Cendón, J. Galewsky, A. N. LeGrande, C. Risi, Z. D. Sharp, J. M. Welker, M. Werner, and K. Yoshimura
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In this study we compile global isotope proxy records of climate changes from the last ice age to the late-Holocene preserved in cave calcite, glacial ice and groundwater aquifers. We show that global patterns of late-Pleistocene to late-Holocene precipitation isotope shifts are consistent with stronger-than-modern isotopic distillation of air masses during the last ice age, likely impacted by larger global temperature differences between the tropics and the poles.
W. C. Clyde, P. D. Gingerich, S. L. Wing, U. Röhl, T. Westerhold, G. Bowen, K. Johnson, A. A. Baczynski, A. Diefendorf, F. McInerney, D. Schnurrenberger, A. Noren, K. Brady, and the BBCP Science Team
Sci. Dril., 16, 21–31, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-21-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-21-2013, 2013
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Location/Setting: Continental | Subject: Other research disciplines | Geoprocesses: Global climate change
Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania
Why deep drilling in the Colônia Basin (Brazil)?
Agathe Lisé-Pronovost, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tom Mallett, Michela Mariani, Richard Lewis, Patricia S. Gadd, Andy I. R. Herries, Maarten Blaauw, Hendrik Heijnis, Dominic A. Hodgson, and Joel B. Pedro
Sci. Dril., 25, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-25-1-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-25-1-2019, 2019
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We present the first results from scientific drilling at Darwin Crater, a 816 000-year-old meteorite impact crater in Tasmania. The aim was to recover lacustrine sediments in the crater to reconstruct paleoclimate and bridge a time gap in understanding climate change in mid-latitude Australia. The multi-proxy dataset provides clear signatures of alternating glacial and interglacial lithologies, promising for investigating the role of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds in Pleistocene climate.
M.-P. Ledru, W. U. Reimold, D. Ariztegui, E. Bard, A. P. Crósta, C. Riccomini, and A. O. Sawakuchi
Sci. Dril., 20, 33–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-20-33-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-20-33-2015, 2015
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Short summary
MexiDrill, the Basin of Mexico Drilling Program, recovered a continuous, high-resolution 400 000 year record of tropical North American environmental change. The field location, in the densely populated, water-stressed, Mexico City region, gives this record particular societal relevance. The record also contains a rich record of volcanic activity; knowledge of the history of the area's explosive volcanic eruptions will improve capacity for risk assessment of future activity.
MexiDrill, the Basin of Mexico Drilling Program, recovered a continuous, high-resolution 400 000...
