Summary
Owing to the increasing interest in continental drilling in retrieving palaeoclimatic archives from extant lakes, a compilation and description of drilling equipment available for continuous and undisturbed sampling (>50 m) of soft sediment from a platform floating on a lake surface is provided. For those systems operated by scientific institutions, at least one scientist with PAGES-related research experience is part of the management structure for the drilling equipment. In the case of commercial companies, an interest has been indicated for cooperative scientific studies. These systems use multiple-entry coring. Most use core barrels with liners. They can drill through tens to hundreds of meters of water and through similar thicknesses of sediment. The recovered sedimentary sequence is of a quality such that palaeoclimatic multiproxy and high-resolution (less than a mm) analyses should be possible.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ager, T., 1994. The U. S. Geological Survey Global Change Drilling Project at Fort Yukon, Alaska, 1994. USGS Report, 36 pp.
BDP-93 Baikal Drilling Project members, 1996. Preliminary results of the first drilling on lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia. Quat. Internal. 37: 3–17.
BDP-96 Baikal Drilling Project members, 1997. Leg II EOS v. 78, no 51, 597, 601, 604.
BDP-00 Baikal Drilling Project members, 2000. The Late Cenozoic record from Lake Baikal (results investigations of 600 m deep drilling core). Russian Geology and Geophysics 41, 1: 3–32 (in Russian).
Brauer, A., J. Mingram, U. Frank, C. Günter, G. Schettler, S. Wulf, B. Zolitschka & J. F. W. Negendank, 2000. Abrupt environmental oscillations during the Early Weichselian recorded at Lago Grande di Monticchio, Southern Italy. Quat. Intern. 73: 79–90.
Colman, S. M., 1996. Continental Drilling for Palaeoclimate Records. PAGES workshop report, series 96-4, 104 pp.
Hajdas, I., B. Zolitschka, S. Ivy-Ochs, J. Beer, G. Bonani, S. Leroy, J. Negendank, M. Ramrath & M. Suter, 1995. AMS radiocarbon dating of annually laminated sediments from Lake Holzmaar, Germany. Quat. Sc. Rev. 14: 137–143.
Horie, S., 1987. History of Lake Biwa. Institute of Paleolimnology and Paleoenvironment on Lake Biwa, Kyoto University, contribution 553, 242 pp.
Horie, S., 1991. Die Geschichte des Biwa-Sees in Japan. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck, 346 pp.
Kelts, K., 1998. Global Lake Drilling: GLAD800. IDEAL Bulletin. Winter 1998/1999. http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/ideal/bulletin/wi98.
Kerr, S. J., I. G. Stanistreet & T. C. Partridge, 1993. The sedimentary facies record from the Pretoria Saltpan crater. S. Afr. J. Sc. 89: 372–374.
Kuzmin, M. I., G. V. Kalmychkov, A. D. Duchkov, V. F. Gelety, A. Y. Golmchtok, E. Karabanov, B. N. Khakhaev., L. A. Pevzner, N. Iochida, N. M. Baginov, Y. A. Diadin, E. G., Larionov, A. Y. Manakov, M. M. Mandelbaum & M. M. I. F. Vashenko, 2000. Gas hydrates from Lake Baikal bottom sediments. Geology of Ore Deposits 42(1): 25–37. (in Russian).
Leroy, S., 1996. Inventory of drilling equipment for recovery of long lacustrine sequences. Annex A-l. In S. M. Colman, 1996. Continental drilling for palaeoclimate records. PAGES workshop report, series 96-4, 79–101.
Leroy, S., B. Zolitschka, J. Negendank & G. Seret, 2000. Palynological analyses in the laminated sediment of Lake Holzmaar (Eifel, Germany): duration of Lateglacial and Preboreal biozones. Boreas 29, 1: 52–71.
Livingstone, D., 1965. The use of filament tape in raising long cores from soft sediment. Limnol. Oceanogr. 12, 2: 346–348.
Løvlie, R. & S. Leroy, 1995. Magnetostratigraphy of Lower Pleistocene Banyoles paleolake carbonate sediments from Catalonia, NE-Spain: evidence for relocation of the Cobb Mountain sub-chron. Quat. Sc. Rev. 14, 5: 473–486.
Merkt, J. & H. Streif, 1970. Stechrohr-Bohrgeräte für limnische und marine Lockersedimente. Geol. Jb. 88: 137–148.
Naumann, S., 1999. Späät-und postglaziale Landschaftsentwicklung im Bajan Nuur Seebecken (Nordwestmongolei). Erde, Band 130, Heft Nr. 2, Seite 117–130.
Partridge, T. C., S. J. Kerr, S. E. Metcalfe, L. Scott, A. S. Talma & J. C. Vogel, 1993. The Pretoria Saltpan: a 200,000 year Southern African lacustrine sequence. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. 101:317–337.
Partridge, T C. & I. B. Watt, 1991. The stratigraphy of the Sterkfontein hominid deposit and its relationship to the underground cave system. Palaeont. afr. 28: 35–40.
Tobias, P., J. Vogel, H. D. Oschadleus, T. C. Partridge & J. K. McKee, 1993. New isotopic and sedimentological measurements of the Thabaseek deposits (South Africa) and the dating of the Taug Hominid. Quat. Res. 40: 360–367.
Wansard, G., 1996. Quantification of paleotemperature changes during isotopic stage 2 in the La Draga continental sequence (NE Spain) based on the Mg/Ca ratio of freshwater ostracods. Quat. Sc. Rev. 15: 237–245.
Williams, T, N. Thouveny & K. M. Creer, 1996. Palaeoclimatic significance of the 300 ka mineral magnetic record from the sediments of Lac du Bouchet, France. Quat. Sc. Rev. 15,2–3: 223–236.
Wright, H., 1967. A square-rod piston sampler for lake sediments. J. Sedim. Petrol.: 975–976.
Wright, H., 1980. Cores of soft lake sediments. Boreas 9: 107–114.
Wright, H., 1991. Coring tips. J. Paleolim. 6: 37–49.
Wright, H., E. Cushing & D. Livingstone, 1965. Coring devices for lake sediments. In Kummel, B. & D. Raup (eds.) Handbook of Palaeontological Techniques. Freeman, San Francisco: 494–520.
Zolitschka, B. & J. F. W. Negendank, 1996. Sedimentology, dating and palaeoclimatic interpretation of a 76.3 ka record from Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy. Quat. Sc. Rev. 15, 2–3: 101–112.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Leroy, S.A.G., Colman, S.M. (2002). Coring and Drilling Equipment and Procedures for Recovery of Long Lacustrine Sequences. In: Last, W.M., Smol, J.P. (eds) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47669-X_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47669-X_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-0-7923-6482-5
Online ISBN: 978-0-306-47669-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive