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01 Dec 2020
Workshop report |
| 01 Dec 2020
| 01 Dec 2020
Report on ICDP Deep Dust workshops: probing continental climate of the late Paleozoic icehouse–greenhouse transition and beyond
School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, USA
Laurent Beccaletto
BRGM, 45060 Orléans, France
Kathleen C. Benison
Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 26506,
USA
Sylvie Bourquin
Université de Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes – UMR 6118,
35000 Rennes, France
Georg Feulner
Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Potsdam, Germany
Natsuko Hamamura
Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Michael Hamilton
Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory, University of Toronto,
Toronto, M5S3B1, Canada
Nicholas G. Heavens
Space Sciences Institute, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, USA
Linda Hinnov
Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University,
Fairfax, 22030, USA
Adam Huttenlocker
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90033,
USA
Cindy Looy
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California-Berkeley,
Berkeley, 94720, USA
Lily S. Pfeifer
School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, USA
Stephane Pochat
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique Université de
Nantes, Nantes Cedex, 44322, France
Mehrdad Sardar Abadi
School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, USA
James Zambito
Geology Department, Beloit College, Beloit, 53511, USA
A full list of authors appears at the end of the paper.
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We report on a planned Trans-Amazon Drilling Project (TADP) that will continuously sample Late Cretaceous to modern sediment in a transect along the equatorial Amazon of Brazil, from the Andean foreland to the Atlantic Ocean. The TADP will document the evolution of the Neotropical forest and will link biotic diversification to changes in the physical environment, including climate, tectonism, and landscape. We will also sample the ca. 200Ma basaltic sills that underlie much of the Amazon.
D. J. Condon, P. Boggiani, D. Fike, G. P. Halverson, S. Kasemann, A. H. Knoll, F. A. Macdonald, A. R. Prave, and M. Zhu
Sci. Dril., 19, 17–25, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-19-17-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-19-17-2015, 2015
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This workshop report outlines the background, topics discussed and major conclusions/future directions arising form an ICDP- and ECORD-sponsored workshop convened to discuss the utility of scientific drilling for accelerating Neoproterozoic research.
J. S. Wellner
Sci. Dril., 18, 11–11, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-18-11-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-18-11-2014, 2014
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Short summary
The events of the Permian — the orogenies, biospheric turnovers, icehouse and greenhouse antitheses, and Mars-analog lithofacies — boggle the imagination and present us with great opportunities to explore Earth system behavior. Here we outline results of workshops to propose continuous coring of continental Permian sections in western (Anadarko Basin) and eastern (Paris Basin) equatorial Pangaea to retrieve continental records spanning 50 Myr of Earth's history.
The events of the Permian — the orogenies, biospheric turnovers, icehouse and greenhouse...
