| title: | Interrelationships of climatic and biotic processes in the Baltic Ordovician and Silurian based on palaeontological and isotope data |
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| reg no: | ETF6127 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University |
| head of project: | Dimitri Kaljo |
| duration: | 01.01.2005 - 31.12.2008 |
| description: | Main task of the project is to find through elucidation of interrelationships of evolutionary biotic and climatic processes the agents that cause, first, changes in the biodiversity dynamics both in taxonomic and morphologic sense, and, secondly, changes in the trend of carbon cycling during the time interval under study. This analysis will give reliable data for characterization of climate in the Baltica area but in the global context. Database for that work will be formed by palaeontological and biodiversity studies of corals, brachiopods, jawed polychaetes and trilobites, sedimentological, geochemical and isotope studies of sections in order to compile an as complete as possible trend of carbon isotope changes. For making the time scale and correlation chart in use more exact detailed chitinozoan and conodont biozonations will be employed. Possible practical applications rise from stratigraphical and facies- climatic patterns discovered and can be used in applied geology and university curricula. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Linda Hints | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | Head of Department of Scientific Collections | |
| 2. | Olle Hints | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | Senior Researcher | |
| 3. | Dimitri Kaljo | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | dept. head | |
| 4. | Tõnu Martma | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | research scientist | |
| 5. | Mari-Ann Mõtus | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | reseacher | |
| 6. | Jaak Nõlvak | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | senior research worker | |
| 7. | Helje Pärnaste | Institute of Geology at Tallinn Technical University | researcher; Ph.D. student | |