Between Jan. 18th and Jan. 24th 2015 we enjoyed the hospitality of Prof. Yang and his research group at the Department of Geosciences of the National Taiwan University. During a three-day fieldwork in the southern part of Taiwan with Prof. Sano we could collect gas samples from mud volcanoes and other gas-emitting spots.
For more impressions see the Expeditions/Fieldwork page.
A few sediment samples from the Nankai Trough have been analyzed to determine the He concentrations and the 3He/4He isotope ratios in the mineral phase. The CO(2) produced by heating the samples in a Ta furnace (i.e., the gas extraction step at up to 1800°C) was analyzed for its δ13C isotope signature.
The Quaternary Science Reviews special issue Results from the PALEOVAN Drilling Project: a 600,000 year long continental archive in the Near East is now published. Our contribution
can be downloaded for free until January 7th 2015 using the following link.
