Map of the centre of Amsterdam (from Central Station to Hotel van Onna).
Sketch of VU- campus and another map/route description.
This course consists of 3 integrated parts that will provide a comprehensive, critical and in-depth overview on the "tool-box" used to reconstruct climate history (transfer of the participants will be centrally organized by bus).
Topics: Inorganic and organic matter based proxies
microfossil skeletons based proxies
land-sea correlation terrestrial: plant
material and dust in marine cores
acquisition and validation of
oceanographic parameters (e.g. salinity, temperature, oxygen)
sedimentation
patterns deduced from sediment cores taken during a two day expedition
biomarker and isotopic proxies for carbon-cycle variations
physical proxies
(digital core imaging)
elemental concentrations (XRF-scanner) and magnetic
properties of the minerals included in sediments
assessment and accuracy,
reliability and robustness of the various proxies.
Corals as paleoclimatic archives
On 7 or 8 of June an excursion will be made in NW Netherlands by half of the group of participants.
Sea-level records
Deltawerken: Geology of the Netherlands
