Created: 18.03.2026

Lessons from deep drilling in the Chew Bahir basin

How can continuous environmental records be recovered from the southern Ethiopian Rift? This study presents the Chew Bahir drilling campaign, showing how overlapping sediment cores enable high-resolution reconstructions of past climate and human evolution.

Photo Credit: Asfawossen Asrat

Citation & Link

Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, E. T., Deino, A., Erbello, A., Fischer, M. L., Gebregiorgis, D., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C. S., Opitz, S., Noren, A., Roberts, H. M., Tiedemann, R., Vidal, C.-M., Viehberg, F., Vogelsang, R., Zachow, C., … Trauth, M. H. (2026). Scientific deep drilling in the Chew Bahir basin: Advantages and pitfalls of two overlapping sediment cores. Scientific Drilling, 35(1), 61–81. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-35-61-2026
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