[PALEOVAN] PALEOVAN - Lake Van Drilling Project
ICDP-Topics:
Climate & Ecosystems
Year of Application: 2007
Expedition ID: 5034
Current Status: completed
Master Data
Prof. Dr. Thomas Litt (First-PI)
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß (PI)
Dr. Jens Kallmeyer (PI)
Prof. Dr. Roland Oberhänsli (PI)
Dr. Daniel Winkelmann (PI)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Krastel (PI)
Dr. Thomas Wonik (PI)
Dr. Nadine Pickarski (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schmincke (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Henrike Baumgarten (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Masafumi Sudo (Scientific Participant)
Jeremy McCormack (Scientific Participant)
Christoph Steinhoff (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Ola Kwiecien (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Jonathan Engelhardt (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Adrian Immenhauser (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Katja Lindhorst (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Mari Sumita (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Nils Riedel (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Georg Heumann (Scientific Participant)
Dr. Deniz Cukur (Scientific Participant)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Kempe (Workshop Participant)
Dr. Sven Oliver Franz (Workshop Participant)
Dr. Frank Niessen (Workshop Participant)
Projektstart: 1 June, 2009
Projektdauer: 3
Geologisches
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Latitude: 38°38'0''N
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Longitude: 42°54'0''E
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Description
Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (volume 607 km3, area 3570 km2, maximum depth 460 m), extending for 130 km WSW-ENE on a high plateau in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The annually-laminated sedimentary record of Lake Van promises to be an excellent palaeoclimate archive because it potentially yields a long and continuous continental sequence that covers several glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 500 kyr). Therefore, Lake Van is a key site within ICDP for the investigation of the Quaternary climate evolution in the Near East. The geochronological precision on a decadal or even annual scale will allow comparisons not only with astronomical cyclicity but also signals below the frequency of Milankovitch cycles, such as North Atlantic Oscillation, which may have also affected the past climate system of the eastern Mediterranean region. As a closed and saline lake, Lake Van react very sensitively to lake level changes caused by any alterations in the hydrological regime in response to climate change. We also intend to determine the concentrations of atmospheric noble gases in the pore waters of the long IDCP cores to geochemically reconstruct - for the first time ever - lake levels and salinity on time scales of 1 - 100 kyr. Hence, the long cores from Lake Van will allow determination of the in-situ terrestrial He gradient as a function of depth within a sediment column of several hundred meters. These data will provide the first direct insights about the transport of terrestrial He trough the uppermost crust. Tephra layers, documented in the short cores and also expected in the deep drilling of Lake Van sediments, will allow reconstructing larger volcanic events and environmental impacts. The short cores from Lake Van show also strong evidence of earthquake-triggered microfaults, interpreted as seismites. Similar features are expected to be found in the deeper sections. The unique setting of Lake Van, which records simultaneously the volcanic as well as the earthquake history, will also allow establishing possible coincidence between larger earthquakes and volcanic events. We propose to use GLAD800 to drill a series of sites in Lake Van to recover sedimentary sequences alog a transect. Based on the high resolution seismic data and multidisciplinary scientific work on cores collected in 2004, we propose to drill five primary sites. Alternate sites and secondary sites have also been identified.
Related Publications
Pickarski, Nadine, Kwiecien, Ola, Litt, Thomas (2023). "Volcanic impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Eastern Mediterranean" Communications Earth & Environment p167
Engelhardt, Jonathan (2018). "40 Ar/39 Ar Geochronology of ICDP PALEOVAN Drilling Cores" Dissertation p360
Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sumita, Mari, Cukur, Deniz (2018). "Large-volume basaltic hyaloclastite eruption along a propagating land/lake lithosphere fracture at Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia): impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van V" Bulletin of Volcanology 80: 82 p1-23
Pickarski, Nadine, Litt, Thomas (2017). "A new high-resolution pollen sequence at Lake Van, Turkey: insights into penultimate interglacial–glacial climate change on vegetation history" Climate of the Past 13 p689-710
Kallmeyer, Jens (2017). "Contamination Control for Scientific Drilling Operations" Advances in Applied Microbiology 98 p61-91
Engelhardt, Jonathan Franz, Sudo, Masafumi, Stockhecke, Mona, Oberhänsli, Roland (2017). "Feldspar 40Ar/39Ar dating of ICDP PALEOVAN cores" Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 217 p144-170
Tomonaga, Yama, Brennwald, Matthias S., Livingstone, David M., Kwiecien, Olga, Randlett, Marie-Ève, Stockhecke, Mona, Unwin, Katie, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Beer, Jürg, Haug, Gerald H., Schubert, Carsten J., Sturm, Mike, Kipfer, Rolf (2017). "Porewater salinity reveals past lake-level changes in Lake Van, the Earth’s largest soda lake" Scientific Reports 7 p313
Cukur, Deniz, Krastel, Sebastian, Tomonaga, Yama, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sumita, Mari, Meydan, Ayşegül Feray, Çağatay, M Namık, Toker, Mustafa, Kim, Seong-Pil, Kong, Gee-Soo (2017). "Structural characteristics of the Lake Van Basin, eastern Turkey, from high-resolution seismic reflection profiles and multibeam echosounder data: geologic and tectonic implications" International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau) 106 p239-253
Toker, Mustafa, Sengor, AM Celal, Schluter, Filiz Demirel, Demirbag, Emin, Cukur, Deniz, Imren, Caner, Niessen, Frank, PaleoVan-Working Group (2017). "The structural elements and tectonics of the Lake Van basin (Eastern Anatolia) from multi-channel seismic reflection profiles" Journal of African Earth Sciences 129 p165-178
Adhikari,Rishi R., Glombitza,Clemens, Nickel,Julia C., Anderson,Chloe H., Dunlea,Ann G., Spivack,Arthur J., Murray,Richard W., D'Hondt,Steven, Kallmeyer,Jens (2016). "Hydrogen Utilization Potential in Subsurface Sediments" Frontiers in Microbiology 7 p8
Stockhecke, Mona, Timmermann, Axel, Kipfer, Rolf, Haug, Gerald H., Kwiecien, Ola, Friedrich, Tobias, Menviel, Laurie, Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Anselmetti, Flavio (2016). "Millennial to orbital-scale variations of drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean" Quaternary Science Review 133 p77-95
Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Langgut, D., Litt, T. (2015). "Abrupt climate and vegetation variability of eastern Anatolia during the last glacial" Clim. Past 11 p1491-1505
Baumgarten, Henrike (2015). "Climate implications and lithological characteristics of sediments from Lake Van (Turkey) and Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) obtained from downhole logging data" Dissertation
Cukur, Deniz, Krastel, Sebastian, Çağatay, M. Namık, Damcı, Emre, Meydan, Aysegül Feray, Kim, Seong-Pil (2015). "Evidence of extensive carbonate mounds and sublacustrine channels in shallow waters of Lake Van, eastern Turkey, based on high-resolution chirp subbottom profiler and multibeam echosounder data" Geo-Marine Letters 35 p329-340
Kallmeyer, Jens, Grewe, Sina, Glombitza, Clemens, Kitte, J. Axel (2015). "Microbial abundance in lacustrine sediments: a case study from Lake Van, Turkey" International Journal of Earth Sciences 104 p1667-1677
Macdonald, Ray, Sumita, Mari, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Bagiński, Bogusław, White, John C., Ilnicki, Sławomir S. (2015). "Peralkaline felsic magmatism at the Nemrut volcano, Turkey: impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van (Anatolia) IV" Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology p34
Pickarski, Nadine, Kwiecien, Ola, Djamali, Morteza, Litt, Thomas (2015). "Vegetation and environmental changes during the last interglacial in eastern Anatolia (Turkey): a new high-resolution pollen record from Lake Van" Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology p145-158
Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Heumann, Georg, Stockhecke, Mona, Tzedakis, Polychronis C. (2014). "A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p30-41
Randlett, Marie-Ève, Coolen, Marco J. L., Stockhecke, Mona, Pickarski, Nadine, Litt, Thomas, Balkema, Cherel, Kwiecien, Ola, Tomonaga, Yama, Wehrli, Bernhard, Schubert, Carsten J. (2014). "Alkenone distribution in Lake Van sediment over the last 270 ka: influence of temperature and haptophyte species composition" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p53-62
Stockhecke, Mona, Kwiecien, Ola, Vigliotti, Luigi, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Beer, Jürg, Çağatay, M. Namik, Channell, James E. T., Kipfer, Rolf, Lachner, Johannes, Litt, Thomas, Pickarski, Nadine, Sturm, Michael (2014). "Chronostratigraphy of the 600,000 year old continental record of Lake Van (Turkey)" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p8-17
Baumgarten, H., Wonik, T. (2014). "Cyclostratigraphic studies of sediments from Lake Van (Turkey) based on their uranium contents obtained from downhole logging and paleoclimatic implications" International Journal of Earth Sciences p1-16
Kwiecien, Ola, Stockhecke, Mona, Pickarski, Nadine, Heumann, Georg, Litt, Thomas, Sturm, Michael, Anselmetti, Flavio, Kipfer, Rolf, Haug, Gerald H. (2014). "Dynamics of the last four glacial terminations recorded in Lake Van, Turkey" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p42-52
Baumgarten, H., Wonik, T., Kwiecien, O. (2014). "Facies characterization based on physical properties from downhole logging for the sediment record of Lake Van, Turkey" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p85-96
Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sumita, Mari (2014). "Impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van (eastern Anatolia) III: Periodic (Nemrut) vs. episodic (Süphan) explosive eruptions and climate forcing reflected in a tephra gap between ca. 14 ka and ca. 30 ka" Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research p195-213
Litt, Thomas, Anselmetti, Flavio (2014). "Lake Van deep drilling project PALEOVAN" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p1-7
Stockhecke, Mona, Sturm, Michael, Brunner, Irene, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sumita, Mari, Kipfer, Rolf, Cukur, Deniz, Kwiecien, Ola, Anselmetti, Flavio S. (2014). "Sedimentary evolution and environmental history of Lake Van (Turkey) over the past 600 000 years" Sedimentology p1830-1861
Cukur, Deniz, Krastel, Sebastian, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sumita, Mari, Çağatay, M. Namık, Meydan, Aysegül Feray, Damcı, Emre, Stockhecke, Mona (2014). "Seismic stratigraphy of Lake Van, eastern Turkey" Quaternary Science Reviews 104 p63-84
Pickarski, Nadine (2014). "Vegetation and climate history during the last glacial-interglacial cycle at Lake Van, eastern Anatolia" Dissertation p123
Cukur, Deniz, Krastel, Sebastian, Schmincke, Hans Ulrich, Sumita, Mari, Tomonaga, Yama, Namık Çağatay, M. (2014). "Water level changes in Lake Van, Turkey, during the past ca. 600 ka: climatic, volcanic and tectonic controls" Journal of Paleolimnology p201-214
Sumita, Mari, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2013). "Erratum To “Impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van II: Temporal evolution of explosive volcanism of Nemrut Volcano (eastern Anatolia) during the past ca. 0.4 Ma” [J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 253 (2013), 15–34]" Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 253 p131-133
Sumita, Mari, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2013). "Impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van I: evolution of explosive volcanism of Nemrut Volcano (eastern Anatolia) during the past >400,000 years" Bulletin of Volcanology p714
Sumita, Mari, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2013). "Impact of volcanism on the evolution of Lake Van II: Temporal evolution of explosive volcanism of Nemrut Volcano (eastern Anatolia) during the past ca. 0.4 Ma" Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 253 p15-34
Cukur, Deniz, Krastel, Sebastian, Demirel-Schlüter, Filiz, Demirbağ, Emin, Imren, Caner, Niessen, Frank, Toker, Mustafa (2013). "Sedimentary evolution of Lake Van (Eastern Turkey) reconstructed from high-resolution seismic investigations" International Journal of Earth Sciences 102 p571-585
Glombitza,Clemens, Stockhecke,Mona, Schubert,Carsten, Vetter,Alexandra, Kallmeyer,Jens (2013). "Sulfate reduction controlled by organic matter availability in deep sediment cores from the saline, alkaline Lake Van (Eastern Anatolia, Turkey)" Frontiers in Microbiology 4 p209
Litt, T., Anselmetti, F., Baumgarten, H., Beer, J., Cagatay, N., Cukur, D., Damci, E., Glombitza, C., Haug, G., Heumann, G., Kallmeyer, J., Kipfer, R., Krastel, S., Kwiecien, O., Meydan, A.F., Orcen, S., Pickarski, N., Randlett, M.-E., Schmincke, H.-U., Schubert, C.J., Sturm, M., Sumita, M., Stockhecke, M., Tomonaga, Y., Vigliotti, L., Wonik, T. (2012). "500,000 Years of Environmental History in Eastern Anatolia: The PALEOVAN Drilling Project" Scientific Drilling p18-29
Huguet, C., Fietz, S., Moraleda, N., Litt, T., Heumann, G., Stockhecke, M., Anselmetti, F. S., Sturm, M. (2012). "A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey" Environmental Science and Pollution Research p3628-3635
Riedel, Nils (2012). "Der Einfluss von Vulkanausbrüchen auf die Vegetationsentwicklung und die agrarische Nutzung seit dem Weichselspätglazial in Ostanatolien anhand von palynologischen Untersuchungen an lakustrinen Sedimenten des Vansees (Türkei)" Dissertation p128
Litt, Thomas, Anselmetti, Flavio S., Cagatay, M. Namik, Kipfer, Rolf, Krastel, Sebastian, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich, Sturm, Michael (2011). "A 500,000-year-long sediment archive drilled in eastern Anatolia" Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 51 p477-479
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