TY - JOUR
T1 - ICDP workshop on scientific drilling of Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau
T2 - 1 million years of paleoenvironmental history, geomicrobiology, tectonics and paleomagnetism derived from sediments of a high-altitude lake
AU - The 2018 Nam Co workshop party
AU - Haberzettl, Torsten
AU - Daut, Gerhard
AU - Schulze, Nora
AU - Spiess, Volkhard
AU - Wang, Junbo
AU - Zhu, Liping
AU - St-Onge, Guillaume
AU - Chen, Fahu
AU - Liu, Xingqi
AU - Lyu, Xinmiao
AU - Ju, Jianting
AU - Ma, Qingfeng
AU - Wu, Zhonghai
AU - Wünnemann, Bernd
AU - Yan, Dada
AU - Yi, Shuangwen
AU - Zhang, Hanzhi
AU - Zhao, Yan
AU - Zhao, Hongbo
AU - Buylaert, Jan Pieter
AU - Murray, Andrew
AU - van der Woerd, Jerome
AU - Frenzel, Peter
AU - Gleixner, Gerd
AU - Harms, Uli
AU - Reicherter, Klaus
AU - Schwalb, Antje
AU - Ulfers, Arne
AU - újvári, Gábor
AU - Mehrotra, Nivedita
AU - Waldmann, Nicolas
AU - Lami, Andrea
AU - Ariztegui, Daniel
AU - Barbolini, Natasha
AU - Ascough, Philippa
AU - Clarke, Leon
AU - Henderson, Andrew
AU - Staff, Richard
AU - Noren, Anders
AU - Spanbauer, Trisha
AU - Stoner, Joseph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/6/12
Y1 - 2019/6/12
N2 - The Tibetan Plateau is of peculiar societal relevance as it provides freshwater from the so-called "Water Tower of Asia" to a large portion of the Asian population. However, future climate change will affect the hydrological cycle in this area. To define parameters for future climate change scenarios it is necessary to improve the knowledge about thresholds, timing, pace and intensity of past climatic changes and associated environmental impacts. Sedimentary archives reaching far back in time and spanning several glacial-interglacial cycles such as Nam Co provide the unique possibility to extract such information. In order to explore the scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling effort at Nam Co would provide, 40 scientists from 13 countries representing various scientific disciplines met in Beijing from 22 to 24 May 2018. Besides paleoclimatic investigations, opportunities for paleomagnetic, deep biosphere, tectonic and paleobiological studies were discussed. After having explored the technical and logistical challenges and the scientific opportunities all participants agreed on the great value and need to drill this extraordinary archive, which has a sediment thickness of more than 1 km, likely covering more than 1 Ma.
AB - The Tibetan Plateau is of peculiar societal relevance as it provides freshwater from the so-called "Water Tower of Asia" to a large portion of the Asian population. However, future climate change will affect the hydrological cycle in this area. To define parameters for future climate change scenarios it is necessary to improve the knowledge about thresholds, timing, pace and intensity of past climatic changes and associated environmental impacts. Sedimentary archives reaching far back in time and spanning several glacial-interglacial cycles such as Nam Co provide the unique possibility to extract such information. In order to explore the scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling effort at Nam Co would provide, 40 scientists from 13 countries representing various scientific disciplines met in Beijing from 22 to 24 May 2018. Besides paleoclimatic investigations, opportunities for paleomagnetic, deep biosphere, tectonic and paleobiological studies were discussed. After having explored the technical and logistical challenges and the scientific opportunities all participants agreed on the great value and need to drill this extraordinary archive, which has a sediment thickness of more than 1 km, likely covering more than 1 Ma.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067249174&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5194/sd-25-63-2019
DO - 10.5194/sd-25-63-2019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067249174
SN - 1816-8957
VL - 25
SP - 63
EP - 70
JO - Scientific Drilling
JF - Scientific Drilling
ER -