Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102427
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Developing and testing a new dating tool for Quaternary science. This project plans to use cutting-edge instrumentation to develop a novel method for dating geological materials formed in a critical time window for which no dating technique currently exists. The last million years of Earth’s history has seen dramatic changes in global climate and environment, with catastrophic volcanic eruptions and numerous other natural processes shaping landforms and ecosystems. A major challenge for studying these phenomena and their impacts is the dating of geological archives in the time window between 50 000 and 1 000 000 years. This project aims to develop a method for dating young volcanic rocks that can close this critical gap. The result would be a new dating tool with broad implications for the Quaternary sciences globally, including paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, natural hazards assessment, hominin evolution and archaeology.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $289,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Natural Hazards | Geology | Geochronology | Volcanology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified | Natural Hazards not elsewhere classified |
