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Samuel Masoni
Quentin Impagliazzo
Luci-Lou Hebert
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Ice cores
Sediment cores
(from the lake or from the sea-floor)
Summary
Summary
INTRODUCTION
I- Ice Cores
1) Lake Sediments
A/ What can we learn thanks to lake sediment cores
1) Introduction
2) Seafloor Sediments
A/ Drilling Techniques and Repartition
B/ Cores Identification and Description
5) Dating Strategy
D/ Cores Dating
CONCLUSION
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I. Ice Cores
I. Ice Cores
1) Introduction https://www.youtube.com/embed/T69_diWYbkQ?rel=0
I. Ice Cores
I. Ice Cores
I. Ice Cores
I. Ice Cores
Temperature
Accumulation rate
Origin of the precipitation
Atmospheric composition
Other climate parameters
Volcanic and solar forcings
I. Ice Cores
5) Dating Strategy
I. Ice Cores
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I. Ice Cores
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I. Ice Cores
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I. Ice Cores
7) What past climates are relevent to modern-day and future climate change ?
Anthropogenic perturbation
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I. Ice Cores
years ago
2) The second Challenge : Obtain an undisturbed Greenland ice core climate record covering the
integrity of the last interglacial periods
4 ) The final Challenge : The ultra-high-resolution records of climate variability and climate
forcings spanning the past 2000 years
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Oxygenation
Exceptional events
Living conditions for organisms in the lake
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Magnetic Reversal
Tephrochronology
Radiocarbon Analysis
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2) Seafloor Sediments
A/ Drilling Techniques and Geographical Repartition
Drilling techniques
- Difficulty : keep the sediment compact
- Different techniques for different kinds
of sediments
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SITE: where
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D/ Cores Dating
Biostratigraphy (microfossils)
Magnetic Reversal
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Advantages
Disadvantages
- High cost
- Can be dated
- Some discontinuity
- Technical difficulties
-Low resolution
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CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Ice cores:
- 123 000 (greenland)
to 800 000 years (antartica)
- Global geographic scale
- High resolution
Lake sediment cores:
- 800 000 years
- Local geographic scale
- High resolution
Seafloor sediment cores :
- 100 millions years
- Global geographic scale
- Low resolution
Reconstruct the past climates
plan the futur climates
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Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jouzel, J., & MassonDelmotte, V. (2010). Paleoclimates: what do we learn from deep ice
cores?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1(5), 654-669.
Worksheet correction
Lake drying
Oxygenation
SITE:
HOLE :
CORE: