Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0343908

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0343908

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

MILLENIAL-SCALE INSTABILITY OF SEA LEVEL AND THE CLIMATE SYSTEM: NEW ANALYSIS OF CORAL TERRACES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Northern hemisphere climates switched repeatedly and abruptly between cold and warm states during the ice ages. This unexplained finding poses uncertainties about future climate. The exact chronology of past sea level and climatic changes is a key to the problem: this project aims to establish precise chronology through re-analysis of coral terraces at Huon Peninsula, PNG. New U-series dating methods will give an accurately-timed record of sea level changes, which will be tightly locked to marine-sediment records of climatic change, by using sharp changes in atmospheric radiocarbon as universal marker horizons.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $295,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geochemistry | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Climate change | Physical and chemical conditions |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Climate variability | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Geochemistry | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) | Physical and chemical conditions

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