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Terminplanung kommende Semester und Vortragsarchiv BayCEER Kolloquium

Vortragsreihe Ökologie und Umweltforschung SS 2015

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Dr. Jan Berend Stuut
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NL / Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, DE (Homepage)
Donnerstag, 18.06.2015 12:00-13:30 H6, Geo

Mineral Dust - A Key Player in the Earth System

The title of my presentation is the same as the title of a book on mineral dust that I edited recently together with Peter Knippertz, a meteorologist working in Karlsruhe and with whom I have organised some dusty sessions for the European Geosciences Union annual meetings in Vienna. With the book we have attempted to give a comprehensive overview of the full range of current dust research and the underpinning fundamental scientific concepts while at the same time explaining concrete applications of this science.

As a marine geologist, I have a rather biased view on mineral dust, of which I would like to present a few examples in the presentation, focussing on past Saharan dust in marine sediment cores as well as modern dust deposition and its marine environmental effects on the Atlantic Ocean.

On a geological time scale the seasonal/monsoonal precipitation in sub-Saharan Africa has shifted zonally, causing abrupt and persistent droughts whenever the summer rains were concentrated further South than at present. These wet-dry alternations are recorded in the marine sediment archive where aeolian dust and fluvial mud are deposited depending on the environmental conditions on land. In addition to the natural variability, land-use plays an active role in the mobilisation of soils as well.

In this talk I will give some examples of studies carried out on deep-sea sediments retrieved off NW Africa with the aim to reconstruct palaeo-environmental conditions in the source area(s) of Saharan dust. The proxies I will present are bulk-chemical composition, Sr/Nd isotopes, and particle-size distribution of the terrigenous sediment fraction. The derived aridity records from sediment cores off Mauritania have varying temporal resolution throughout the Late Quaternary.

In addition, I will attempt to ground-truth the inferences made from the sediment archive with modern data from sediment traps that have collected dust over the past few decades and ongoing. The combination of proxies and modern observations offers the unique opportunity to study in high detail the natural versus anthropogenic dust production and transport, as well as their marine environmental effects.

 

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Invited by Ulrich Hambach, Geomorphology



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