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© Author(s) 2019.The Tibetan Plateau is of peculiar societal relevance as it provides freshwater from the so-called "Water Tower of Asia" to a large portion of the Asian population. However, future climate change will affect the hydrological cycle in this area. To define parameters for future climate change scenarios it is necessary to improve the knowledge about thresholds, timing, pace and intensity of past climatic changes and associated environmental impacts. Sedimentary archives reaching far back in time and spanning several glacial-interglacial cycles such as Nam Co provide the unique possibility to extract such information. In order to explore the scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling effort at Nam Co would provide, 40 scientists from 13 countries representing various scientific disciplines met in Beijing from 22 to 24 May 2018. Besides paleoclimatic investigations, opportunities for paleomagnetic, deep biosphere, tectonic and paleobiological studies were discussed. After having explored the technical and logistical challenges and the scientific opportunities all participants agreed on the great value and need to drill this extraordinary archive, which has a sediment thickness of more than 1 km, likely covering more than 1 Ma.
Author(s): Haberzettl T, Daut G, Schulze N, Spiess V, Wang J, Zhu L, St-Onge G, Chen F, Liu X, Lyu X, Ju J, Ma Q, Wu Z, Wunnemann B, Yan D, Yi S, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Zhao H, Buylaert J-P, Murray A, van der Woerd J, Frenzel P, Gleixner G, Harms U, Reicherter K, Schwalb A, Ulfers A, ujvari G, Mehrotra N, Waldmann N, Lami A, Ariztegui D, Barbolini N, Ascough P, Clarke L, Henderson A, Staff R, Noren A, Spanbauer T, Stoner J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Scientific Drilling
Year: 2019
Volume: 25
Pages: 63-70
Online publication date: 12/06/2019
Acceptance date: 22/11/2018
Date deposited: 24/06/2019
ISSN (print): 1816-8957
ISSN (electronic): 1816-3459
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
URL: https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-25-63-2019
DOI: 10.5194/sd-25-63-2019
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