Deep Drilling of the Amazon Continental Margin: Cenozoic Climate and Biodiversity; Gravity Tectonics; Microbes, Diagenesis, Gas Hydrates and Fluid Flow

March 24-March 26, 2014 – Buzios, Brazil
Convener: Catherine Rigsby, Cleverson Silva, Paul Baker

Overview

The origin of the great biodiversity observed in tropical South America has spurred debate for well over a hundred years (Darwin 1859, Agassiz and Agassiz 1868, Wallace 1878), and it remains one of the foundational problems in modern science. This workshop discussed potential IODP drilling to continuously sample sediment from late-Cenozoic to modern age in the “Foz do Amazonas” basin, including the Amazon Fan, on the equatorial Atlantic continental margin of Brazil.

Workshop Report (pdf)

Steering Committee
Paul A. Baker, Duke University
Cristiano Chiessi, Universidade de São Paulo
Laura L. Lapham, University of Maryland
A. Tadeu Dos Reis, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Catherine Rigsby, East Carolina University
Enno Schefuss, Universität Bremen
Cleverson Silva, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Geoffrey Wheat, University of Alaska Fairbanks