SGER: Planning For Scientific Drilling on Lake Malawi, East African Rift

SGER：规划在东非裂谷马拉维湖进行科学钻探

• 批准号: 0105814
• 负责人: Christopher Scholz
• 金额: $ 5.8万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0105814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Planning; Scientific; Drilling; Lake

This award supports preliminary site investigations and logistics planning for an ambitious drilling project to recover a series of ~400 meter-long continuous sediment cores from Lake Malawi at the southern end of the East African Rift Valley. Previous studies from the region show the area to be a unique outdoor laboratory and archive for the study of tropical paleoclimatology, tectonics, and evolutionary biology. Consequently, Lake Malawi holds the promise of providing a high-resolution paleoclimate record of unparalleled antiquity in a region highly sensitive to climate change and critical for understanding the dynamics of the Earth's climate system.

该合同支持一个雄心勃勃的钻探项目的初步现场勘察和后勤规划，该项目旨在从东非裂谷南端的马拉维湖开采一系列约400米长的连续沉积物岩芯。该地区以前的研究表明，该地区是研究热带古气候学、构造学和进化生物学的独特户外实验室和档案馆。因此，马拉维湖有望在一个对气候变化高度敏感、对了解地球气候系统动态至关重要的区域提供无与伦比的古代高分辨率古气候记录。