Abstract: A 70 meters long continental sediment record was recovered at Darwin Crater in western Tasmania, Australia. The new sedimentary archive includes a pre-lake deposit and the complete lake sediment succession accumulated over several glacial/interglacial climate cycles in the ~816 ka meteorite impact crater. A total of 160 meters of overlapping sediment cores were drilled from three closely-spaced holes. Here we report on the drilling operations at Darwin Crater and present the first results from multi-sensor whole core logging, sediment descripti...
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Paleontology
Geochemistry