Lake Van PALEOVAN - Drilling 500'000 years of environmental history
Goals
Goals
Specific goals of the PaleoVan project are to reconstruct the:
- Paleoclimate development in a sensitive semiarid region based on proxy data and modeling
- Dynamics of lake level fluctuations and hydrological development
- Formation and age of lake Van and fluid transport from the earth mantle
- History of volcanism and volcanic activity based on tephrostratigraphy
- Variations of the earthmagnetic field and solar activity
- Tectonic, paleoseismic and earthquake activity
- Interaction between man and environment since prehistoric time