DeepDust Drilling Project - first core on deck!

The very first core of 40 feet (12 m) arrived on deck on August 16. 

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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