TY - JOUR
T1 - ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project
T2 - A late Miocene-present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lake
AU - Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium
AU - Russell, James M.
AU - Barker, Philip
AU - Cohen, Andrew
AU - Ivory, Sarah
AU - Kimirei, Ishmael
AU - Lane, Christine
AU - Leng, Melanie
AU - Maganza, Neema
AU - McGlue, Michael
AU - Msaky, Emma
AU - Noren, Anders
AU - Boush, Lisa Park
AU - Salzburger, Walter
AU - Scholz, Christopher
AU - Tiedemann, Ralph
AU - Nuru, Shaidu
AU - Albrecht, Christian
AU - Ali, Rahma
AU - Arrowsmith, Ramon
AU - Asanga, Danstan
AU - Asmerom, Yemane
AU - Bakundukize, Charles
AU - Bauersachs, Thorsten
AU - Beck, Catherine
AU - Berke, Melissa
AU - Beverley, Emily
AU - Blaauw, Martin
AU - Boush, Lisa
AU - Brown, Erik
AU - Campisano, Chris
AU - Carrapa, Barbara
AU - Castaûeda, Isla
AU - Cohen, Andy
AU - Dee, Sylvia
AU - Deino, Alan
AU - Ebinger, Cindy
AU - Ellis, Geoff
AU - Foerster, Verena
AU - Fontijn, Karen
AU - Gehrels, George
AU - Indemaur, Adrian
AU - Jovanovska, Elena
AU - Junginger, Annett
AU - Kaboth, Stefanie
AU - Kallmeyer, Jens
AU - King, John
AU - Konecky, Bronwen
AU - Mark, Darren
AU - McGlue, Mike
AU - McIntyre, Pete
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
PY - 2020/5/27
Y1 - 2020/5/27
N2 - The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene (∼ 10 Ma) to the present anywhere in the tropics and has long been recognized as a top-priority site for scientific drilling. The lake is surrounded by the Miombo woodlands, part of the largest dry tropical biome on Earth. Lake Tanganyika also harbors incredibly diverse endemic biota and an entirely unexplored deep microbial biosphere, and it provides textbook examples of rift segmentation, fault behavior, and associated surface processes. To evaluate the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling program at Lake Tanganyika could offer, more than 70 scientists representing 12 countries and a variety of scientific disciplines met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2019. The team developed key research objectives in basin evolution, source-to-sink sedimentology, organismal evolution, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, terrestrial paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology to be addressed through scientific drilling on Lake Tanganyika. They also identified drilling targets and strategies, logistical challenges, and education and capacity building programs to be carried out through the project. Participants concluded that a drilling program at Lake Tanganyika would produce the first continuous Miocene-present record from the tropics, transforming our understanding of global environmental change, the environmental context of human origins in Africa, and providing a detailed window into the dynamics, tempo and mode of biological diversification and adaptive radiations.
AB - The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene (∼ 10 Ma) to the present anywhere in the tropics and has long been recognized as a top-priority site for scientific drilling. The lake is surrounded by the Miombo woodlands, part of the largest dry tropical biome on Earth. Lake Tanganyika also harbors incredibly diverse endemic biota and an entirely unexplored deep microbial biosphere, and it provides textbook examples of rift segmentation, fault behavior, and associated surface processes. To evaluate the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling program at Lake Tanganyika could offer, more than 70 scientists representing 12 countries and a variety of scientific disciplines met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2019. The team developed key research objectives in basin evolution, source-to-sink sedimentology, organismal evolution, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, terrestrial paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology to be addressed through scientific drilling on Lake Tanganyika. They also identified drilling targets and strategies, logistical challenges, and education and capacity building programs to be carried out through the project. Participants concluded that a drilling program at Lake Tanganyika would produce the first continuous Miocene-present record from the tropics, transforming our understanding of global environmental change, the environmental context of human origins in Africa, and providing a detailed window into the dynamics, tempo and mode of biological diversification and adaptive radiations.
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U2 - 10.5194/sd-27-53-2020
DO - 10.5194/sd-27-53-2020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085683873
SN - 1816-8957
VL - 27
SP - 53
EP - 60
JO - Scientific Drilling
JF - Scientific Drilling
ER -