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Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia is a crucial site for detecting long-term global changes, owing to its high sensitivity to climatic oscillation and its extraordinarily long history. Because lacustrine sediments have an advantage in providing high-resolution information, the sediments in Lake Baikal contain excellent continuous records of past conditions including paleoclimates, evolution, and specification of organisms. Based on the study by the Baikal Drilling Project, this book provides information on global climatic and environmental changes for as much as 12 million years. The book also includes discussions of comparatively short-term changes such as glacial and interglacial transitions that directly link to the present and future environment. Long Continental Records from Lake Baikal summarizes the latest knowledge on the paleoenvironment and provides a foundation for further studies in global environmental changes.

 

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Recent studies of the long-term global environment have demonstrated that long continental records, such as those preserved in lake sediments (Kashiwaya et al. 1998, 2001a) and loess (An et al. 2001; Ding et al. 1999), are highly relevant for reconstructing long-term, high-resolution environmental changes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
understanding global change processes, subalpine elements, long reversed interval, core depth interval, long continental records, steryl chlorin esters, eolian transfer, freshwater centric diatoms, shore landforms, whole grain size, bay outcrop, biogenic silica records, magnetostratigraphic ages, weighted average curves, continental climate response, underwater boreholes, short sediment cores, peat site, diatom analyses, min valves, paleoenvironmental changes, filtered curves, diatom flora, rift depression, baikal area Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Russ Geol Geophys, Lake Hovsgol, Baikal Drilling Project Members, Org Geochem, Russian Academy of Sciences, Geochim Cosmochim Acta, Geophys Res, Acad Sci, Lake Biwa, Kanazawa University, Sci Rev, Selenga River, Earth Planet Sci Lett, Limnological Institute, Nagoya University, New York, University of Tokyo, Average Min, Elsevier Science, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nucl Instrum Methods, Quat Int, Younger Dryas, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science New!
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