TY - JOUR
T1 - The Towuti Drilling Project
T2 - Paleoenvironments, biological evolution, and geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake
AU - Russell, James M.
AU - Bijaksana, Satria
AU - Vogel, Hendrik
AU - Melles, Martin
AU - Kallmeyer, Jens
AU - Ariztegui, Daniel
AU - Crowe, Sean
AU - Fajar, Silvia
AU - Hafidz, Abdul
AU - Haffner, Doug
AU - Hasberg, Ascelina
AU - Ivory, Sarah
AU - Kelly, Christopher
AU - King, John
AU - Kirana, Kartika
AU - Morlock, Marina
AU - Noren, Anders
AU - O'Grady, Ryan
AU - Ordonez, Luis
AU - Stevenson, Janelle
AU - von Rintelen, Thomas
AU - Vuillemin, Aurele
AU - Watkinson, Ian
AU - Wattrus, Nigel
AU - Wicaksono, Satrio
AU - Wonik, Thomas
AU - Bauer, Kohen
AU - Deino, Alan
AU - Friese, André
AU - Henny, Cynthia
AU - Imran,
AU - Marwoto, Ristiyanti
AU - Ngkoimani, La Ode
AU - Nomosatryo, Sulung
AU - Safiuddin, La Ode
AU - Simister, Rachel
AU - Tamuntuan, Gerald
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/7/27
Y1 - 2016/7/27
N2 - The Towuti Drilling Project (TDP) is an international research program, whose goal is to understand long-term environmental and climatic change in the tropical western Pacific, the impacts of geological and environmental changes on the biological evolution of aquatic taxa, and the geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry of metal-rich, ultramafic-hosted lake sediments through the scientific drilling of Lake Towuti, southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lake Towuti is a large tectonic lake at the downstream end of the Malili lake system, a chain of five highly biodiverse lakes that are among the oldest lakes in Southeast Asia. In 2015 we carried out a scientific drilling program on Lake Towuti using the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Deep Lakes Drilling System (DLDS). We recovered a total of ~ 1018m of core from 11 drilling sites with water depths ranging from 156 to 200 m. Recovery averaged 91.7 %, and the maximum drilling depth was 175m below the lake floor, penetrating the entire sedimentary infill of the basin. Initial data from core and borehole logging indicate that these cores record the evolution of a highly dynamic tectonic and limnological system, with clear indications of orbital-scale climate variability during the mid- to late Pleistocene.
AB - The Towuti Drilling Project (TDP) is an international research program, whose goal is to understand long-term environmental and climatic change in the tropical western Pacific, the impacts of geological and environmental changes on the biological evolution of aquatic taxa, and the geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry of metal-rich, ultramafic-hosted lake sediments through the scientific drilling of Lake Towuti, southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lake Towuti is a large tectonic lake at the downstream end of the Malili lake system, a chain of five highly biodiverse lakes that are among the oldest lakes in Southeast Asia. In 2015 we carried out a scientific drilling program on Lake Towuti using the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Deep Lakes Drilling System (DLDS). We recovered a total of ~ 1018m of core from 11 drilling sites with water depths ranging from 156 to 200 m. Recovery averaged 91.7 %, and the maximum drilling depth was 175m below the lake floor, penetrating the entire sedimentary infill of the basin. Initial data from core and borehole logging indicate that these cores record the evolution of a highly dynamic tectonic and limnological system, with clear indications of orbital-scale climate variability during the mid- to late Pleistocene.
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U2 - 10.5194/sd-21-29-2016
DO - 10.5194/sd-21-29-2016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84979752655
SN - 1816-8957
VL - 21
SP - 29
EP - 40
JO - Scientific Drilling
JF - Scientific Drilling
ER -