The second stage of the Egeoland Project (duration of 18 months) includes the study of the core samples taken in Lemnos (Work Package 1) in June 2020.
The three deep cores taken in Lemnos – one has reached 15m in depth – were transferred to the Laboratory of the Geology Department (AUTH) for opening and first inspection.
The content of the cores was split in two for the needs of the analysis which will be carried out both in Thessaloniki and the Wiener Lab of the American School at Athens (Cooperative Organization); these studies will be complementary to each other and according to the needs of the final synthesis of the data.
The treatment of the samples in the two laboratories (washing, drying, etc) – a particularly time-consuming stage of the work – has already started in October 2020 but unfortunately has suffered from serious drawbacks because of the pandemic situation, which has affected our initial planning; more specifically, it has put work restrictions in the Labs (number of people working together in a room, researchers moving as planned between the two laboratories in Thessaloniki and Athens, etc). Especially, the strict lockdown imposed in the town of Thessaloniki has delayed for two months the work planned in the Laboratory of the Geology Department. It is hoped that the situation will soon improve.
