TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientific drilling of Lake Chalco, Basin of Mexico (MexiDrill)
AU - Brown, Erik T.
AU - Caballero, Margarita
AU - Cabral-Cano, Enrique
AU - Fawcett, Peter J.
AU - Lozano-García, Socorro
AU - Ortega, Beatriz
AU - Pérez, Liseth
AU - Schwalb, Antje
AU - Smith, Victoria
AU - Steinman, Byron
AU - Stockhecke, Mona
AU - Valero-Garcés, Blas L.
AU - Watt, Sebastian
AU - Wattrus, Nigel
AU - Werne, Josef
AU - Wonik, Thomas
AU - Myrbo, Amy
AU - Noren, Anders
AU - O'Grady, Ryan
AU - Schnurrenberger, Douglas
AU - The MexiDrill Team
PY - 2019/12/2
Y1 - 2019/12/2
N2 - The primary scientific objective of MexiDrill, the Basin of Mexico Drilling Program, is development of a continuous, high-resolution 400 kyr lacustrine record of tropical North American environmental change. The field location, in the densely populated, water-stressed Mexico City region gives this record particular societal relevance. A detailed paleoclimate reconstruction from central Mexico will enhance our understanding of long-term natural climate variability in the North American tropics and its relationship with changes at higher latitudes. The site lies at the northern margin of the Intertropical Convergence zone (ITCZ), where modern precipitation amounts are influenced by sea surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic basins. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), more winter precipitation at the site is hypothesized to have been a consequence of a southward displacement of the mid-latitude westerlies. It thus represents a key spatial node for understanding large-scale hydrological variability of tropical and subtropical North America and is at an altitude 2240ma.s.l.), typical of much of western North America. In addition, its sediments contain a rich record of pre-Holocene volcanic history; knowledge of the magnitude and frequency relationships of the area’s explosive volcanic eruptions will improve capacity for risk assessment of future activity. Explosive eruption deposits will also be used to provide the backbone of a robust chronology necessary for full exploitation of the paleoclimate record. Here we report initial results from, and outreach activities of, the 2016 coring campaign.
AB - The primary scientific objective of MexiDrill, the Basin of Mexico Drilling Program, is development of a continuous, high-resolution 400 kyr lacustrine record of tropical North American environmental change. The field location, in the densely populated, water-stressed Mexico City region gives this record particular societal relevance. A detailed paleoclimate reconstruction from central Mexico will enhance our understanding of long-term natural climate variability in the North American tropics and its relationship with changes at higher latitudes. The site lies at the northern margin of the Intertropical Convergence zone (ITCZ), where modern precipitation amounts are influenced by sea surface temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic basins. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), more winter precipitation at the site is hypothesized to have been a consequence of a southward displacement of the mid-latitude westerlies. It thus represents a key spatial node for understanding large-scale hydrological variability of tropical and subtropical North America and is at an altitude 2240ma.s.l.), typical of much of western North America. In addition, its sediments contain a rich record of pre-Holocene volcanic history; knowledge of the magnitude and frequency relationships of the area’s explosive volcanic eruptions will improve capacity for risk assessment of future activity. Explosive eruption deposits will also be used to provide the backbone of a robust chronology necessary for full exploitation of the paleoclimate record. Here we report initial results from, and outreach activities of, the 2016 coring campaign.
UR - https://www.sci-dril.net/26/1/2019/
U2 - 10.5194/sd-26-1-2019
DO - 10.5194/sd-26-1-2019
M3 - Article
SN - 1816-8957
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Scientific Drilling
JF - Scientific Drilling
ER -