Palaeomagnetic Dating and Environmental Magnetism of Sedimentary Record (F06)

• Subject Area: Physical Geography
• Term: from 2013 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

Major goal of project F6 is to conduct palaeomagnetic dating to enhance age control for the sedimentary records investigated within the scope of the CRC 806. For this purpose, geomagnetic field excursions (past 120 ka), palaeointensities (250 ka), and palaeosecular variations (>10 ka) of Earth’s geomagnetic field shall be used. In addition, measurements of rock magnetic proxies will be carried out on selected records to complement other proxies in reconstructing environmental and climatic histories.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Martin Melles