Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project
Description
A borehole in the deep basin of the Dead Sea (at water depth of ~200m) will recover a continuous sequence of the Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentary record. The core will provide a high-resolution record of the paleoenvironmental climatic, seismic and geomagnetic history (in scales ranging from sub-stage, through millennial, to sub decadal) of the East Mediterranean region.
Additionally this sequence will serve as a basic scale for basin development studies of this extraordinary sedimentary environment (e.g. salt formation) and the understanding of the geotectonic environment along the Dead Sea Transform fault.
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Location
Asia, Israel, Dead Sea
Coordinates
31.4° N, 35.4° E (Please scroll down to end of page for more information.)
Project Start and End
Start of drilling was November 2010, it ended in March 2011
Programs and Funding
- International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
- Israel Science Foundation
- Israel Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Computing Center
- ICDP Germany - German Science Foundation
- Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF), Germany
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, Japan
- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- European Science Foundation
Principal Investigators
- Mordechai (Moti) Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Geochemistry
- Zvi Ben-Avraham, Tel-Aviv University, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences
- Steven L. Goldstein, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
- Hans Joachim (Achim) Brauer, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution
- Amotz Agnon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences
- Gerald H. Haug, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Department of Earth Sciences, Geological Institute, Climate Geology
- Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
- Daniel Raul Ariztegui, Université de Genève, Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement
- Emi Ito, University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Cooperating Principal Investigators
No Co-PIs found for this project
Partners and Contractors
- Geological Survey of Israel, Geochemistry
- Israel Academy of Science and Humaneties
- Tel-Aviv University, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences
- Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geosciences
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.3, Chemistry and Physics of Earth Materials
- Hebrew University, Institute of Earth Sciences
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Department of Earth Sciences, Geological Institute, Climate Geology
- International Research Center for Japanese Studies, IRCJS-Kyoto
- DOSECC, Inc.
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Scientific Drilling, (Operational Support Group OSG/ICDP)
Keywords
Asia, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Basin, DSB, DSDDP, Human Migration, ICDP-2009/05, Israel, Jordan, Lake Drilling, Paleoclimate, Paleoseismology, Rift Tectonics
Current State
10 holes at three sites were drilled with a total core recovery of about 720m. Core opening and sampling were done in summer/autumn 2011.
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