Scientific drilling for human origins: Exploring the application of drill core records to the unders
Nickname
HomininEvol
Format
SEGY
Type
PASSCAL
Start year
2008
End Year
2008
Description
The overall goal of the project is to integrate continental scientific drilling as a tool in understanding the paleoenvironmental context of human origins. This new research direction in merging earth science and paleoanthropological research will involve obtaining drill core records from near-continuous lacustrine sedimentary sequences, located on-land, close to areas of critical importance for understanding hominin evolution, focused around critical time intervals for human origins in the Late Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene. In this phase of research, we will collect high-resolution seismic reflection data and other critical site-survey and subsurface data for two key localities in Kenya and Ethiopia, essential to the success of a future drilling program.
EarthScope Consortium operates the NSF National Geophysical Facility (NSF NGF).
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