ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lake
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
Our planet experienced enormous environmental changes in the last 10 million years. Lake Tanganyika is the oldest lake in Africa and its sediments comprise the most continuous terrestrial environmental record for this time period in the tropics. This workshop report identifies key research objectives in rift processes, evolutionary biology, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology that could be addressed by drilling this globally important site.
Our planet experienced enormous environmental changes in the last 10 million years. Lake...