Drilling into a deep buried valley (ICDP DOVE): a 252&thinsp;m long sediment succession from a glacial overdeepening in northwestern Switzerland

Schaller, Sebastian; Buechi, Marius W.; Schuster, Bennet; Anselmetti, Flavio S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-27-2023

Articles | Volume 32

https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-27-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-32-27-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 32

Science report

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26 Oct 2023

Science report |

| 26 Oct 2023

Drilling into a deep buried valley (ICDP DOVE): a 252 m long sediment succession from a glacial overdeepening in northwestern Switzerland

Sebastian Schaller, Marius W. Buechi, Bennet Schuster, and Flavio S. Anselmetti

Data sets

Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE) - Operational Dataset of DOVE Phase 1 DOVE-Phase 1 Scientific Team, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Sarah Beraus, Marius W. Buechi, Hermann Buness, Thomas Burschil, Markus Fiebig, Gustav Firla, Gerald Gabriel, Lukas Gegg, Thomas Grelle, Katja Heeschen, Ernst Kroemer, Carlos Lehne, Christopher Lüthgens, Stephanie Neuhuber, Frank Preusser, Sebastian Schaller, Clemens Schmalfuss, Bennet Schuster, David C. Tanner, Camille Thomas, Yama Tomonaga, Ulrike Wieland-Schuster, and Thomas Wonik https://doi.org/10.5880/ICDP.5068.001

Short summary

In the frame of the DOVE (Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys) project and with the support of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), we drilled and recovered a 252 m long sediment core from the Basadingen Through. The Basadingen Trough, once eroded by the Rhine glacier during several ice ages, reaches over 300 m under the modern landscape. The sedimentary filling represents a precious scientific archive for understanding and reconstructing past glaciations.