Lake Ohrid, Mazedonia

Sebastian krastel, Tilmann Schwenk

Lake Ohrid is located in southeastern Europe at the border between Mazedonia and Albania with 360 km² surface area and a maximum depth of 286 m. It. became a target for drilling because of its large number of endemic species and the high biodiversity. Also, the lake may have been isolated over several million years and could have accumulated a long Neogene sedimentary archive.

Two cruises had been carried out in 2007 and 2008 to acquire site survey data for potential ICDP drilling (SCOPSCO - Scientific Collabo-ration On Past Speciation Conditions in Ohrid). 

Further research had been carried out at CAU Kiel by Sebastian Krastel.

Cruise Facts

Duration: 22.09.07 - 25.09.07
Vessel:  --
Participants: Krastel
Funding: DFG
Data sets:

• MCS, Teledyne 100 m 16ch, mini GI Gun

Cruise Facts

Duration: 04.06.08 - 12.06.08
Vessel:  --
Participants: Krastel
Funding: DFG
Data sets:

• MCS, Hires 50 m 48ch, mini GI Gun

Links

Project Web Pages: Sebastian Krastel, Kiel University

ICDP  Drilling Campaign Lake Ohrid

Publications

Lindhorst, Katja, Krastel, S., Reicherter, K., Stipp, M., Wagner, B., Schwenk, T. (2015) Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania): Basin Research, 27 (1), 84-101, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12063.

Lindhorst, Katja, Gruen M., Krastel S., Schwenk T. (2012) Hydroacoustic Analysis of Mass Wasting Deposits in Lake Ohrid (FYR Macedonia/Albania). Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 31, 245-+, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_22.

Lindhorst, K., Vogel, H., Krastel, S., Wagner, B., Hilgers, A., Zander, A., Schwenk, T., Wessels, M., Daut, G. (2010) Stratigraphic analysis of Lake Level Fluctuations in Lake Ohrid: An integration of high resolution hydro-acoustic data and sediment cores. Biogeosciences, 7, 3531–3548, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-3531-2010.

Reicherter, K., Hoffmann, N., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Fernández-Steeger, T., Active basins and neotectonics: the Lake Ohrid (FYROM, Albania). Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss., 162: 217–234, https://doi.org/10.1127/1860-1804/2011/0162-0217.

Bachelor Thesis

Kühl, Bastian (2008) Sedimentationsgeschichte des Ohrid-See abgeleitet aus hochauflösenden seismischen Daten. B.Sc. Thesis, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen.