Drilling Projects By
World
Geological Time
Climate & Ecosystems
Sustainable Georesources
Natural Hazards
Asia
- Maps of Asia
- Boso Peninsula (Japan)
- Chelungpu (Taiwan)
- Dead Sea (Israel)
- Donghai (China)
- Hanoi (Vietnam)
- Koyna (India)
- Lake Baikal (Russia)
- Lake Biwa (Japan)
- Lake El'gygytgyn (Russia)
- Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan)
- Lake Nam Co (China)
- Lake Qinghai (China)
- Lake Towuti (Indonesia)
- Lake Van (Turkey)
- Mutnovsky Volcano (Russia)
- Nankai Trough (Japan)
- NE Japan
- North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
- Oman
- Ryukyu Islands (Japan)
- Songliao Basin (China)
- Songliao - MW-DUL (China)
- Unzen Volcano (Japan)
- Yangtze Craton (China)
Songliao Basin Drilling Project
Continuous High-resolution Terrestrial Archives and Greenhouse Climate Change
Knowledge of Cretaceous terrestrial climatic change is often at best fragmentary. The plan is to conduct scientific drilling in the Cretaceous Songliao Basin, China, to recover a nearly complete Cretaceous terrestrial sedimentary record, as determined from basin-filling history. A study of the core will provide unique opportunities for the geosciences community to understand the response of terrestrial environment to geological events related to the carbon cycle and greenhouse climate change during Cretaceous, which would be of help to inform our understanding of modern global warming.
