NICA-BRIDGE, Nicaragua

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The Central American Bridge Between Two Continents And Two Oceans

Project Acronym: NICA-BRIDGE | State: Workshop Held

The targets are the Lakes Nicaragua and Managua, Nicaragua.
The region is ideal because of its sedimentary and volcanological setting; its biological characteristics and its ecosystem dynamics (because of canal construction). Scientists will conduct interdisciplinary seismological, volcanological, paleoclimatological, paleoecological, and paleoenvironmental studies.
The first seismic pre-site survey confirms a drillable long and continuous sediment record suitable for initial drill site selection. Further Investigations will be supplemented by additional seismic profiles and shallow drilling.

Keywords: Central America, Nicaragua, Hazards, Lake Drilling, Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, Paleoenvironment

Project Management

Steffen Kutterolf – GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Research Division 4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor

Mark Brenner – University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences

Armin Freundt – GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Research Division 4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor

Jens Kallmeyer – German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.7, Geomicrobiology

Sebastian Krastel-Gudegast – University of Kiel, Department of Geosciences, Department of Geophysics, Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics

Sergei Katsev – University of Minnesota at Duluth, Large Lakes Observatory

Axel Meyer – University of Konstanz, Institute of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology

Liseth Carolina Pérez Alvarado – Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication

Juanita Rausch – Particle Vision GmbH

José Armando Saballos Pérez – Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territotiales

Antje Schwalb – Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Environmental Geology, Institute for Geosystems and Bioindications

Wilfried Reinhard Klaus Strauch – Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territotiales

No CO-PI data available.

Contact Persons

Steffen Kutterolf – GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Research Division 4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor

Project Details

Neogene environmental and geological evolution of the Central American bridge between two continents and two oceans (NICA-BRIDGE)

Proposed in: 2018

Current State: Workshop Held

NICA-BRIDGE proposal abstract

Geologic age: neogene
Number of drillsites (drillholes):
Drilled length:
Cored length: -
Core recovered, length: -
Core recovered length / Cored length: -
Core recovered / Drilled length: -

Keywords

Central america , Hazards , Lake drilling , Nica-bridge , Nicaragua , Paleoclimate , Paleoecology , Paleoenvironment

Drillsite Locations: Nicaragua
Coordinates: 11.61667, -85.35000
Please see map at bottom of page.

ICDP Project ID: ICDP-2018/17
ICDP Internal "Expedition" Identifier: not yet assigned
ICDP Internal Database Identifier: 4583
ICDP Project Acronym: NICA-BRIDGE

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Drillsite Coordinates

Lat/Long : 11.61667, -85.35000

Project Timeline

03/2020

Workshop Held

2 - 5 March 2020 in Montelimar, Nicaragua

01/2018

Workshop Proposal Approved

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