Bündelantrag PASADO-Support 2: Palynological analysis of sediment samples from the composite core of a deep drilling in Laguna Potrok Aike to reconstruct climate dynamics between ca. 16.000 and ca. 55.000 years BP.

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Frank Schäbitz
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2009 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 117513711

We propose to carry out a climate reconstruction of the last glacial between ca. 16,000 and ca. 55,000 years BP based on microfossil analysis from sediment samples of the deep drilling project PASADO in Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Argentina. It would be the first continuous climate reconstruction of glacial times in southern Patagonia reaching beyond the Last Glacial Maximum that deals with the detection and characterization of interstadials. This is possible because the corecatcher samples could be analyzed faster as the quantity of corecatcher samples was lower than expected.

• DFG Programme: Infrastructure Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1006: International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)