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Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project (PASADO)
Description
An international research group is applying for the research initiative "Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project" (PASADO) within the framework of ICDP. The project will address several key issues related to the evolution of maar craters, to quantitative climatic and environmental reconstruction, fire history, tephra and dust deposition and palaeosecular variation of the Earth's magnetic field for the last several glacial to interglacial cycles. Moreover, dust and tephra records will provide links to marine sediment archives and ice cores. Obtained reconstructions of climate variability will be compared to climate simulations from GCM's to detect signals of climatic forcing.
- Laguna Potrok Aike is located at 52°S within a 770 ka old maar of the Pali Aike Volcanic Field, southern Patagonia, Argentina. Due to its location the study site is well positioned to capture the dynamics of changes in atmospheric circulation of the southern mid-latitudes with a time resolution out of reach for marine sediments. This region is also the source area of the dust that fertilises the southern ocean with all its implications on the global carbon cycle. Recent seismic studies indicate that the lake basin of Laguna Potrok Aike contains an approximately 300 m thick, continuous sedimentary archive of geological, environmental and climatical processes. This record represents one of the longest and most continuous lake archives for non-tropical South America and the entire southern hemisphere. The sedimentary sequence of Laguna Potrok Aike can be recovered with coring technology available in the framework of ICDP, i.e. using the GLAD800 drilling system.
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Location
South America, Argentina, Southern Patagonia, Province of Santa Cruz, Laguna Potrok Aike
Coordinates
51° 58' 58'' S, 70° 22' 42'' W (Please scroll down to end of page for more information.)
Project Start and End
- Drilling was carried out from September to November 2008. Currently core subsampling and analyses are ongoing.
Programs and Funding
- German Climate Research Program through BMBF (DEKLIM)
- ICDP Germany - German Science Foundation
- International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- University of Bremen
- Vetenskapsradet (VR)
Principal Investigators
- Bernd Zolitschka, University of Bremen, Institute of Geography
- Flavio Anselmetti, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Department of Surface Waters - Research and Management, Sedimentology Section
- Daniel Raul Ariztegui, Université de Genève, Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement
- Raymond S. Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences
- Laurie L. Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences
- Hugo Corbella, Argentine Museum of Natural History
- Hugo Corbella, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos (UNPA)
- Pierre Francus, Université du Québec, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Eau, Terre et Environnement (INRS-ETE)
- Andreas Lücke, Research Center Jülich, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere - ICG IV: Agrosphere
- Nora Irene Maidana, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Departemento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental
- Christian Ohlendorf, University of Bremen, Institute of Geography
- Frank Schäbitz, University of Cologne, Seminar for Geography and Education
- Stefan Wastegård, University of Stockholm, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Physical Geography
Cooperating Principal Investigators
No Co-PIs found for this project
Partners and Contractors
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
- DOSECC, Inc.
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling ICDP (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
- Research Center Jülich
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Department of Earth Sciences
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos (UNPA)
- Université de Genève
- Université du Québec, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
- University of Bremen, Institute of Geography
- University of Cologne
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Stockholm
Keywords
Argentina , Atmospheric Dust , Climate Modelling , GLAD800 , ICDP-01/07 , Lake Drilling , Maar Formation , Maar Lake , PASADO , Patagonia , Potrok Aike , Quantitative Climate Reconstruction , Southern Hemispheric Westerlies , Volcanology
Current State
- ICDP deep drilling was accomplished in November 2008.
Core splitting and scanning of Site 2 was finished in May 2009.
Subsampling of the composite profile of Site 2 started in June and will
end in September 2009. Core splitting and scanning of Site 1 will start
in October 2009. Analyses and data processing are ongoing.
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