Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project
Project Acronym: DSDDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5017
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.
Keywords: Asia, Israel, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Basin, Human Migration, Lake Drilling, Paleoclimate, Paleoseismology, Rift Tectonics
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Cores are stored at Universtiy of Bremen, MARUM, Germany
Project Management
Project Details
Project Location
Project Timeline
Post Drilling Workshop
9 - 11 November 2014
Sampling Party 2
17 October - 4 November 2011
Sampling Party 1
6 - 30 June 2011
Drilling
21 November 2010 - 28 March 2011
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
27 - 28 January 2002