The Dead Sea deep drill core as the longest paleo-environmental archive of the late Quaternary Levant
- Lead PI: Steven L. Goldstein
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Unit Affiliation: Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
- October 2011 - September 2016
- Inactive
- Asia ; Middle East ; Dead Sea
- Project Type: Research
DESCRIPTION: The project will allow for drilling in the Dead Sea to extract core samples creating a long term continuous paleo-seismic and climatic archive. Samples will be taken from the cores, analyzed, and the results integrated into climate models.
OUTCOMES: Completed two drilling sites, sent the samples to GFZ-Potsdam for analysis, performed U and Th isotope analyses, performed Sr and Nd isotope analyses, and recruited two post docs and a PhD to assist.