Hipercorig Hallstatt History (H3): Accessing a deep time window of Lake Hallstatt´s preHistory
PI-Team: M.Strasser1; K.Kowarik2, H.Reschreiter2, A.Brauer3, F.Anselmetti4, S.Fabbri4
1Department of Geology, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria; 2Natural History Museum (NHM) Vienna, Austria; 3Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ Potsdam, Germany; 4Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Jointly funded by the University of Innsbruck, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austrian Science Foundation and contributions by GFZ-German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and the Unviersity of Bern, Switzerland (2021)
Short abstract: This Hipercorig Hallstatt History (H3) project aims at recovering a long sediment core from Lake Hallstatt, by deploying the new core-drilling instrument Hipercorig that overcomes the current coring-depth limit (dated to ~2.3 cal ka BP). A longer core will unravel the entire (Late Glacial – to – ) Holocene sedimentary succession recording past climate, environment, natural hazard impacts, human-environment interactions and prehistoric mining history in the UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut, Austria.
Implementation plan:
Implementation of Hipercorig operation on Lake Hallsatt is currently scheduled from April 12. to May 21. 2021.
Stay tuned for more details and information as the project develops.
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Project Members and partners
Marcel Ortler, University of Innsbruck