MEXIDRILL: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program
Project Acronym: CHALCO | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5060
Scientific drilling project to recover the ~500 m sedimentary sequence contained in the Lake Chalco basin in the Valley of Mexico. These sediment sequences have the potential to provide an ~800,000 year record of North American climate. This would be a unique climate archive that could develop into the "type sequence" for paleoclimate studies in the Americas. These sediments also contain imprints of the tectonic and volcanic history of the Valley of Mexico.
Keywords: Central America, Mexico, Lake Chalco, Hydrology, Paleoclimate, Volcanic And Seismic Hazards
Cores are stored at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Continental Scientific Drilling Facility, USA
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
- Maria del Socorro Lozano Garcia – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Antje Schwalb – Technical University of Braunschweig
- Victoria Smith – University of Oxford
- Blas Valero-Garces – Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia
- Josef Werne – University of Pittsburgh
- Frank Preusser – University of Freiburg
- Margarita Caballero Miranda – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Enrique Cabral Cano – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Peter Fawcett – University of New Mexico
- Jens Kallmeyer – GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
- Eric Morales Casique – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Anders Noren – University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
- Beatriz Ortega Guerrero – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Sebastian Watt – University of Birmingham
- Liseth Perez Alvarado – Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
- Amy Myrbo – Amiable Consulting
- Byron Steinman – University of Minnesota at Duluth
CoPIs
Co-PIs: No data found
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- MEXIDRILL: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program (CHALCO)
- Proposed in:
- 2014
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Quaternary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1(4)
- Drilled length:
- 1246.744 m (4 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 1246.744 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 1040.72 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 83.5%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 83.5%
- Expedition #
- 5060
- Location
- Central America, Mexico, Lake Chalco, Mexico
- Coordinates
- 19.0000, -99.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Drilling
23 February - 30 March 2016
Full Proposal Approved
First Full Proposal Submitted
Workshop Held
4 - 8 March 2012 in Mexico City, Mexico