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dc.contributor.authorRussell, JM
dc.contributor.authorBarker, P
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorIvory, S
dc.contributor.authorKimirei, Ismael
dc.contributor.authorLane, C
dc.contributor.authorLeng, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorMaganza, N
dc.contributor.authorMcGlue, M
dc.contributor.authorMsaky, E
dc.contributor.authorNoren, Anders
dc.contributor.authorPark Boush, L
dc.contributor.authorSalzburger, W
dc.contributor.authorScholz, C
dc.contributor.authorTiedemann, R
dc.contributor.authorNuru, S
dc.contributor.authorTodd, JA
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-18T09:58:38Z
dc.date.available2020-09-18T09:58:38Z
dc.date.issued27/05/2020
dc.date.submitted2020-09-11
dc.identifier.citationRussell, J. M., Barker, P., Cohen, A., Ivory, S., Kimirei, I., Lane, C., Leng, M., Maganza, N., McGlue, M., Msaky, E., Noren, A., Park Boush, L., Salzburger, W., Scholz, C., Tiedemann, R., Nuru, S., and the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium: ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lake, Sci. Dril., 27, 53–60.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1816-8957
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/sd-27-53-2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10141/622844
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCopernicus GmbHen_US
dc.rightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lakeen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1816-3459
dc.identifier.journalScientific Drillingen_US
dc.identifier.volume27en_US
dc.identifier.startpage53 - 60en_US
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elements.import.authorRussell, JMen_US
elements.import.authorBarker, Pen_US
elements.import.authorCohen, Aen_US
elements.import.authorIvory, Sen_US
elements.import.authorKimirei, Ien_US
elements.import.authorLane, Cen_US
elements.import.authorLeng, Men_US
elements.import.authorMaganza, Nen_US
elements.import.authorMcGlue, Men_US
elements.import.authorMsaky, Een_US
elements.import.authorNoren, Aen_US
elements.import.authorPark Boush, Len_US
elements.import.authorSalzburger, Wen_US
elements.import.authorScholz, Cen_US
elements.import.authorTiedemann, Ren_US
elements.import.authorNuru, Sen_US
dc.description.nhm© Author(s) 2020. This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.en_US
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