Lake Titicaca Drilling Project
Project Acronym: LTDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5021
Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru contains one of the most significant climatic archives in South America. It has been identified as one of the primary sites for completion of the Pole-Equator-Pole paleoclimatic transect of the Western Hemisphere. Lake Titicaca is the only large, deep freshwater lake in South America. In 2001, DOSECC cored three sites in Lake Titicaca using the GLAD800. During this project, we collected a total of 593.6 m of core.
Keywords: South America, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, Andes, Climate Change, Global Environment, Lake Drilling
Cores are stored at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Continental Scientific Drilling Facility, USA
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
PIs: No data found
CoPIs
- Geoffrey Seltzer – Syracuse University
- Sherilyn Fritz – University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Lake Titicaca Drilling Project (LTDP)
- Proposed in:
- 2000
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Quaternary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 3(7)
- Drilled length:
- 625.17 m (8 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 625.17 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 625.17 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 100.0%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 100.0%
- Expedition #
- 5021
- Location
- South America, Bolivia, Peru, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Peru
- Coordinates
- -16.0000, -69.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Drilling
1 April - 31 May 2001
Full Proposal Approved
Workshop Held
18 - 21 May 1998 in Huatajata, Bolivia