Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania
Agathe Lisé-Pronovost,Michael-Shawn Fletcher,Tom Mallett,Michela Mariani,Richard Lewis,Patricia S. Gadd,Andy I. R. Herries,Maarten Blaauw,Hendrik Heijnis,Dominic A. Hodgson,and Joel B. Pedro
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia
The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory,
Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, 3086,
VIC, Australia
Michael-Shawn Fletcher
School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory,
Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, 3086,
VIC, Australia
Michela Mariani
School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
School of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Patricia S. Gadd
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia
Andy I. R. Herries
The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory,
Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, 3086,
VIC, Australia
We present the first results from scientific drilling at Darwin Crater, a 816 000-year-old meteorite impact crater in Tasmania. The aim was to recover lacustrine sediments in the crater to reconstruct paleoclimate and bridge a time gap in understanding climate change in mid-latitude Australia. The multi-proxy dataset provides clear signatures of alternating glacial and interglacial lithologies, promising for investigating the role of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds in Pleistocene climate.
We present the first results from scientific drilling at Darwin Crater, a 816 000-year-old...