DeepDust Drilling Project - Data & Sample Management Training

The DeepDust project is positive to start drilling within the next couple of months. In preparation for the operational project phase a team of 5 from the University of Oklahoma came to Potsdam for their Sample & Data Management training to learn and discuss about onsite workflows and mDIS.

The DeepDust project seeks to constrain paleoclimatic conditions, climate forcings, and biospheric responses through Permian time in a key region of the paleoequatorial zone. The approach includes temporal scales ranging from sub-millennial to Milankovitch and beyond by acquiring cores in a continental lowland preserving stratigraphically complete records dominated by loess and lacustrine strata, and an adjacent upland. Target locales are in the U.S. (Anadarko Basin and adjacent Wichita Uplift, Oklahoma) as globally unique sites, as they capture high-resolution continental Permian facies that span the entire Permian, and yoked paleo-uplands preserving hinterland environments.

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