Palaeoclimate

Here you will find an overview of all projects of the palaeoclimate category:

Coastal Calc-arenites as new archive of Holocene storminess in the SW Indian Ocean

Unlike for the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, for the SW Indian Ocean there is no robust record of extreme-wave events. In a recent study by Green et al. (2022) it was revealed that Holocene storminess along the SE African margin was higher than previously thought, their work is based on seismological data.

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Multi-proxy investigations of lacustrine sediments of the Holocene from the Layla Lakes in Saudi Arabia

The Layla lakes, named after the nearby city of Layla, are located about 300 km south of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. These lakes, which have now fallen dry, were formed by the hypogenic karstification of the Upper Jurassic Hith anhydrite and subsequent collapse of the overlying Cretaceous strata, creating a series of up to 40 m deep sinkholes.

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Sedimentology and ecology of last interglacial shorelines in northeastern Oman

Several outcrops along the northeastern coastline of Oman that are the result of a last interglacial sea level highstand, potentially allow the reconstruction of short-term sea level fluctuations during MIS5e. A combination of dating and sedimentological observations is used to reconstruct the coastal evolution of the region.

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10 million years of interaction between terrestrial plant biodiversity and climate in the early Paleogene of the Helmstedt Mining District

A more or less continuous sequence of late Paleocene to middle Eocene sediments has been exposed and sampled in high resolution in opencast mines in the Helmstedt Mining District near Schöningen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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The Rhaetian Bonebed of SW-Germany

The rhaetian bonebed of SW-Germany has been repeatedly palaeontologically researched for over 150 years. The cause of this great interest lies in the abundance of vertebrate fossils in the horizon, which is only a few cm thick. However, both the exact age of the horizon and its genesis have not yet been clarified.

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Climate and vegetation dynamics during the Eocene greenhouse of Central Europe

The planned PhD-project is related to the Early Tertiary, according to previous evidence probably (Middle) Eocene, section of the lacustrine sediments of Lake “Prinz von Hessen” (PvH) in Southwest-Germany, which have been cored in a scientific well in the year 1997 (core B/97-BK 9). Main task of the project is the detailed analysis of the organic material.

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