Lake Van Drilling Project: A Long Continental Record in Eastern Turkey

Abstract

An international research group is proposing a new research initiative, the Lake Van Drilling Project ‘PaleoVan’ within the framework of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). The project mainly aims at obtaining high-resolution paleoclimate records from lacustrine sediments, where biotic and abiotic parameters provide proxy climate data. Lake Van in Turkey has the potential to yield long continental records covering several glacial-interglacial cycles from annually-laminated sediments, hencemaking the lake a key site for the investigation of the Quaternary climate evolution in the Near East.

Keywords

• Lake Van