[DSDDP] DSDDP - Dead Sea Drilling Project
ICDP-Topics:
Climate & Ecosystems
Paleoclimate
Element Cycles
Natural Hazards
Faults
Year of Application: 2009
Expedition ID: 5017
Current Status: completed
Master Data
Prof. Dr. Achim Brauer (PI)
Dr. Peter Dulski (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Sophie Stolzenberger (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Ina Neugebauer (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Andrea Miebach (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Ute Frank (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Rik Tjallingii (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Marieke Ahlborn (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Chunzhu Chen (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Markus Schwab (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug (Scientific Participant)
Daniela Müller (Scientific Participant)
Hannah Vossel (Workshop Participant)
Projektstart:
Projektdauer:
Geologisches
Alter: Neogene To Quaternary
Latitude: 31°30'29''N
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Longitude: 35°28'16''E
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Description
cited from: Stein, M., Z. Ben-Avraham, S. Goldstein, A. Agnon, D. Ariztegui, A. Brauer, G. Haug, E. Ito and Y. Yasuda (2011). "Deep Drilling at the Dead Sea." Sci. Dril. 11: 46-47.
At the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea, a unique scientific project, the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP), is being conducted to establish a late Quaternary paleoenvironmental, tectonic, and seismological archive. Scientific groups from Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Norway, Palestine, Switzerland, and the U.S.A. gathered for the first time on 21 November 2010 to perform scientific drilling at the floor of the deep basin of the Dead Sea. With current lake level of 423 m below sea level and water depth of 300 m, coring started at 723 m below mean sea level. During the first three weeks of drilling ~460 meters of sediment cores were recovered. As expected from shallow piston cores and on-land deposits from the lake level highstands, the cores are composed of alternating intervals of marly units and salts. The sedimentary intervals represent several glacial and interglacial cycles spanning an estimated interval of ~200,000 years. Two coarse-grained sections imply almost complete dry-out phases of the Paleo-Dead Sea, meaning that twice the lake surface was several hundred meters below present day sea level. Drilling is being conducted with the Large Lake Drilling Facility (see front cover of this issue) of DOSECC (Drilling Observation and Sampling of the Earth´s Continental Crust, Inc.). The upper 30 meters were cored by using a hydraulic piston coring system that is capable of penetrating several salt layers with high core recovery, while the deeper section was retrieved with the extended-nose bit coring tools.
Related Publications
Miebach, Andrea, Stolzenberger, Sophie , Wacker, Lisa , Hense, Andreas, Litt, Thomas (2019). "A new Dead Sea pollen record reveals the last glacial paleoenvironment of the southern Levant" Quaternary Science Reviews 214 p98-116
Oryan, B., Villinger, H., Lazar, M., Schwab, M. J., Neugebauer, I., Ben-Avraham, Z. (2019). "Heat flow in the Dead Sea from the ICDP boreholes and its implication for the structure of the basin" Quaternary Science Reviews 210 p103-112
Ben Dor, Yoav, Neugebauer, Ina, Enzel, Yehouda, Schwab, Markus J., Tjallingii, Rik, Erel, Yigal, Brauer, Achim (2019). "Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record" Quaternary Science Reviews p173-184
Ben Dor, Yoav, Armon, Moshe, Ahlborn, Marieke, Morin, Efrat, Erel, Yigal, Brauer, Achim, Schwab, Markus Julius, Tjallingii, Rik, Enzel, Yehouda (2018). "Changing flood frequencies under opposing late Pleistocene eastern Mediterranean climates" Scientific Reports 8
Chen, Chunzhu, Litt, Thomas (2018). "Dead Sea pollen provides new insights into the paleoenvironment of the southern Levant during MIS 6–5" Quaternary Science Reviews 188 p15-27
Ahlborn, Marieke, Armon, Moshe, Dor, Yoav Ben, Neugebauer, Ina, Schwab, Markus J., Tjallingii, Rik, Shoqeir, Jawad Hasan, Morin, Efrat, Enzel, Yehouda, Brauer, Achim (2018). "Increased frequency of torrential rainstorms during a regional late Holocene eastern Mediterranean drought" Quaternary Research 89 p425-431
Miebach, Andrea (2017). "Climate-and Human-Induced Vegetation Changes in Northwestern Turkey and the Southern Levant since the Last Glacial" Dissertation p132
Chen, Chunzhu (2017). "Dead Sea Pollen Reveal the Paleoenvironment of the Southern Levant during 147–89 ka from the Paleobotanical Perspective" Dissertation
Neugebauer, Ina, Wulf, Sabine, Schwab, Markus J, Serb, Johanna, Plessen, Birgit, Appelt, Oona, Brauer, Achim (2017). "Implications of S1 tephra findings in Dead Sea and Tayma palaeolake sediments for marine reservoir age estimation and palaeoclimate synchronisation" Quaternary Science Reviews 170 p269-275
Palchan, Daniel, Neugebauer, Ina, Amitai, Yael, Waldmann, Niklas D., Schwab, Markus J., Dulski, Peter, Brauer, Achim, Stein, Mordechai, Erel, Yigal, Enzel, Yehouda (2017). "North Atlantic controlled depositional cycles in MIS 5e layered sediments from the deep Dead Sea basin" Quaternary Research 87 p168-179
Waldmann, N., Neugebauer, I., Palchan, D., Hadzhiivanova, E., Taha, N., Brauer, A., Enzel, Y. (2017). "Sedimentology of the lacustrine formations in the Dead Sea Basin" Quaternary of the Levant: Environments, Climate Change, and Humans Book p83-90
Neugebauer, I., Schwab, M. J., Waldmann, N. D., Tjallingii, R., Frank, U., Hadzhiivanova, E., Naumann, R., Taha, N., Agnon, A., Enzel, Y., Brauer, A. (2016). "Hydroclimatic variability in the Levant during the early last glacial (∼ 117–75 ka) derived from micro-facies analyses of deep Dead Sea sediments" Clim. Past 12 p75-90
Ina Neugebauer, Achim Brauer, Markus J Schwab, Peter Dulski, Ute Frank, Elitsa Hadzhiivanova, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Thomas Litt, Vera Schiebel, Nimer Taha, Nicolas D Waldmann, DSDDP Scientific Party (2015). "Evidences for centennial dry periods at ~3300 and ~2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments" The Holocene 25 p1358-1371
Neugebauer, Ina (2015). "Reconstructing climate from the Dead Sea sediment record using high-resolution micro-facies analyses" Dissertation
Neugebauer, Ina, Brauer, Achim, Schwab, Markus J, Waldmann, Nicolas D, Enzel, Yehouda, Kitagawa, Hiroyuki, Torfstein, Adi, Frank, Ute, Dulski, Peter, Agnon, Amotz (2014). "Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)" Quaternary Science Reviews 102 p149-165
Williams, Jefferson B, Schwab, Markus J, Brauer, A (2012). "An early first-century earthquake in the Dead Sea" International Geology Review 54 p1219-1228
Stein, M., Ben-Avraham, Z., Goldstein, S., Agnon, A., Ariztegui, D., Brauer, A., Haug, G., Ito, E., Yasuda, Y. (2011). "Deep Drilling at the Dead Sea" Sci. Dril. 11 p46-47
Zolitschka, Bernd, Negendank, Jörg F. W. (1999). "High-resolution records from European Lakes" Quaternary Science Reviews 18 p885-888