Continental Scientific Drilling Into Coral Reefs Near The Northern Limit
Project Acronym: COREF | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5040
The COREF Project is designed to perform continental scientific drilling into Quaternary reef-complex deposits in different settings in the Ryukyu Islands to verify the following issues:
- The nature and magnitude of the coral-reef front migration in order to clarify the climatic/oceanographic factors controlling the reef formation.
- The coral reef ecosystem has highly varied responding to climatic changes on millennial to glacial-interglacial timescales.
- The Quaternary carbonate accumulation rates in coral reefs.
Keywords: Asia, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Climate Change, Coral Reef Drilling, Geobiosphere, Global Environment, Paleoclimatology, Quaternary, Sea-level Changes
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Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Continental scientific drilling into coral reefs near the northern limit (COREF)
- Proposed in:
- 2010
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Quaternary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 2(6)
- Drilled length:
- 497 m (19 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 497 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 497 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 100.0%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 100.0%
- Location
- Asia, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
- Coordinates
- 30.0000, 131.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Sampling Party
15 - 30 November 2016 in Kochi, Japan
Drilling
30 November 2013 - 8 March 2015
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
15 - 17 January 2007 in Okinawa, Japan