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Reconstruction of climate changes in the Nile catchment during Holocene and their impact on ancient Egyptian civilization

2012/05/B/ST10/00558

Keywords:

climate changes Nile Holocene lake sediments Egypt Ancient Egypt Old Kingdom

Descriptors:

  • ST10_5: Mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, economic geology
  • ST10_6: Earth evolution, sedimentology, tectonics, regional geology, marine geology, planetary geology
  • ST10_13: Geoecosystem: atmosphere-morphosphere-lithosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, anthroposphere

Panel:

ST10 - Earth sciences: Earth system science, atmospheric sciences, climatology, geochemistry, geodesy, geoecology, geophysics, physical geography, geoinformatics, planetary geology, pedology, mining, chemical and physical oceanology, environmental protection

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Geologii

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Leszek Marks 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 10

Call: OPUS 3 - announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded: 584 500 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-03-05

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2016-12-04

Project duration:: 45 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Oprogramowanie do modelowania płytkich struktur geologicznych GSI 3D - licencja dla organizacji non-profit + pakiet MS Office + antywirus (17 000 PLN)
  2. oprogramowanie Surfer 12 Plus 2 szt..
  3. oprogramowanie ENVI.
  4. pamięć do notebooka.
  5. szafa chłodnicza (4 500 PLN)
  6. dysk pamięci.
  7. oprogramowanie Grapher Pro 2 szt..
  8. KOMPUTER - JEDNOSTKA CENTRALNA, Obudowa: Mini Tower, Procesor: 4 rdzenie min. 3,4 GHz, Pamięć Operacyjna: 8 GB RAM DDR 3 1600 MHz, Karta Graficzna: openGL, PCI-E 16x, min 2 GB RAM, Dysk twardy: 2 TB SATA 3, Napęd: DVD-RW, Blue-RAY RWPanel USB na froncie obudowy, Peryferia: kawiatura, mysz, System operacyjny: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (2 szt.) (12 000 PLN)
  9. MONITOR: LCD, przekątna: 24", panoramiczny, czas reakcji matrycy: 8 ms (grey-to-grey), kontrast: 1000:1 (typowy), 2000000:1 (dynamiczny), Odświeżanie obrazu : 60 Hz, Rozdzielczość: 1920x1200 (2 szt.) (3 000 PLN)
  10. licencja CorelDraw.
  11. licencja POLPAL.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Molluscs and ostracods of the Qarun Lake: preliminary report from FA-1 core in Faiyum Oasis, northern Egypt
    Authors:
    Szymanek M.
    Academic press:
    Studia Quaternaria (rok: 2017, tom: 34, strony: 39–45), Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/squa-2017-0003 - link to the publication
  2. Climate-induced discharge variations of the Nile during the Holocene: evidence from the sediment provenance of Faiyum Basin, north Egypt
    Authors:
    16.Sun, Q., Liu, Y., Salem, A., Marks, L., Welc, F., Ma, F., Zhang, W., Chen, J., Jiang, J., Chen, Z.
    Academic press:
    Global and Planetary Change (rok: 2019, tom: 172, strony: 200-210), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
  3. Holocene lake sediments from the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt: a record of environmental and climate change
    Authors:
    Marks, L., Salem, A., Welc, F., Nitychoruk, J., Chen, Z., Blaauw, M., Zalat, A., Majecka, A., Szymanek, M., Chodyka, M., Tołoczko-Pasek, A., Sun, Q., Zhao, X. & Jiang, J.
    Academic press:
    Boreas (rok: 2018, tom: 47, strony: 62-79), Wydawca: Wiley Blackwell
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/bor.12251 - link to the publication
  4. Preliminary report on unique laminated Holocene sediments from the Qarun Lake in Egypt
    Authors:
    4.Marks, L., Salem, A., Welc, F., Nitychoruk, J., Zhongyuan, C., Zalat, A., Majecka, A., Chodyka, M., Szymanek, M., Tołoczko-Pasek, A.
    Academic press:
    Studia Quaternaria (rok: 2016, tom: 33, strony: 35-46), Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/squa-2016-0004 - link to the publication
  5. Sediment magnetism of Faiyum basin (Egypt) and its implications for the environment Holocene change
    Authors:
    Jiang, J., Salem, A., Lai, X., Zhang, W., Marks, L., Welc, F., Xu, L., Chen, J., Chen, Z., Sun, Q
    Academic press:
    Journal of Lake Sciences (rok: 2016, tom: 28, strony: 1391-1403), Wydawca: hu bo ke xue bian ji bu
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18307/2016.0625 - link to the publication
  6. Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone in North Africa during the Holocene: Evidence from variations in quartz grain roundness in the lower Nile valley, Egypt
    Authors:
    Zhao, X., Liu, Y., Salem, A., Marks, L., Welc, F., Sun, Q., Chen, J., Jiang, J., Chen, Z.
    Academic press:
    Quaternary International (rok: 2017, tom: 449, strony: 22-28), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.036 - link to the publication
  7. Diatom stratigraphy of FA-1 core, Qarun Lake, records of Holocene environmental and climatic change in Faiyum Oasis, Egypt
    Authors:
    Zalat, A., Marks, L., Welc, F., Salem, A., Nitychoruk, J., Chen, Z., Majecka, A., Szymanek, M., Chodyka, M., Tołoczko-Pasek, A., Sun, Q., Zhao, X., Jiang, J.
    Academic press:
    Studia Quaternaria (rok: 2017, tom: 34, strony: 61–69), Wydawca: Polish Academy of Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1515/squa-017-0005 - link to the publication
  8. The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview
    Authors:
    Monica Bini, Giovanni Zanchetta, Aurel Pers, oiu, Rosine Cartier, Albert Català, Isabel Cacho, Jonathan R. Dean, Federico Di Rita, Russel N. Drysdale, Martin Finnè, Ilaria Isola, Bassem Jalali, Fabrizio Lirer, Donatella Magri, Alessia Masi, Leszek Marks, Anna Maria Mercuri13, Odile Peyron, Laura Sadori, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Fabian Welc, Christoph Zielhofer, and Elodie Brisset
    Academic press:
    Climate of the Past (rok: 2018, ), Wydawca: European Geosciences Union
    Status:
    Submitted
  1. 13 rozdziałów
    Authors:
    Fabian Welc
    Book:
    Holoceńskie zmiany klimatu w dorzeczu dolnego Nilu (rok: 2016, tom: monografia, strony: 1-332), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Stowarzyszenia Naukowego Archeologów Polskich (Oddział Główny SNAP w Warszawie)
    Status:
    Published