David De Vleeschouwer

I am a paleoclimate geologist and cyclostratigrapher at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Bremen, Germany). My research focus lies on climate-carbon cycle feedback mechanisms and their changing response to astronomical forcing under non-Quaternary boundary conditions. I study several geological epochs: the Late Devonian (~375 Ma), the Eocene (~40 Ma) and the Pliocene (~5 Ma). They are worth studying as they provide valuable insights into the machinery of the climate system under boundary conditions much unlike today’s. The age of the sediment(ary rock) under investigation is very different, but my work always shares a common objective: Integrating the paleoclimate and geochronology aspects of the sedimentary archives to better constrain how much and how fast our planet has been changing.

An online learning platform for cyclostratigraphy – www.cyclostratigraphy.org

Christian Zeeden, David De Vleeschouwer and Matthias Sinnesael August 2, 2021

Cyclostratigraphers aim to read and understand the effect of climate-driven orbital changes in the geological record through time. In doing so, they start from an important prerequisite: An imprint of insolation variations caused by Earth’s orbital eccentricity, obliquity and/or precession (Milankovitch forcing) can be preserved in the geological rock record. The new www.cyclostratigraphy.org webs ...[Read More]