Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: Unravelling 10 Million Years of African Environmental Evolution
Project Acronym: TSDP | State: Full Proposal Approved
Lake Tanganyika (East Africa) is the one of the oldest, largest, and deepest lakes found anywhere on Earth and provides a truly outstanding opportunity to transform our understanding of processes controlling tropical climate, biological diversification, and Earth surface (source-to-sink) processes in rift basins. Lake Tanganyika contains the only known sedimentary sequence in the tropics that continuously spans the last ~8-10 Ma at drillable depths, and the lake’s sediments are an established world-class archive of high-fidelity records of precipitation, temperature, lake level, vegetation, and atmospheric dynamics. Drill-cores will allow us to test the response of African climate to fundamentally important reorganizations of the Earth System, such as the response of tropical climates to Miocene-present changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, mid-Pliocene termination of a permanent El Niño, and the onset, intensification, and changes in the periodicity of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation.
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
- Philip A. Barker – University of Lancaster
- Andrew Scott Cohen – University of Arizona
- Sarah Jean Ivory – Pennsylvania State University
- Jens Kallmeyer – GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Ismael Aaron Kimirei – Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute
- Christine Susanna Lane – University of Cambridge
- Melanie J. Leng – British Geological Survey
- Neema Maganza – Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation
- Michael Matthew McGlue – University of Kentucky
- Emma Msaky – Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation
- Emma Samwel Msaky – Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation
- Anders J. Noren – University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
- Lisa Ellyn Park Boush – University of Connecticut
- Walter Salzburger – University of Basel
- Christopher A. Scholz – Syracuse University
- Ralph Tiedemann – University of Potsdam
CoPIs
Co-PIs: No data found
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- The Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP): Unravelling 10 Million Years of African Environmental Evolution (TSDP)
- Proposed in:
- 2020
- Current State:
- Full Proposal approved
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Late Miocene-present
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- n.a.
- Drilled length:
- n.a.
- Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered, length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- n.a.
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- n.a.
- Location
- Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
- Coordinates
- -8.0000, 31.0000
- Status
- Full Proposal approved
- Internal ID
- ICDP-2020/06 (#2062)
Project Location
Project Timeline
Full Proposal Approved
Workshop Held
17 - 20 June 2019 in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania