Long Continental Records from Lake BaikalKenji Kashiwaya 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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Contents
4Major Northern Hemisphere Glaciation | |
5Concluding Remarks | |
Comparison of Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Obtained from | |
1Introduction 2Materials andMethods | |
Geothermal Studies of Underwater Boreholes in Lake Baikal | |
Conclusion | |
Autochthonous Organic Matter within the Lake Baikal Water | |
Glacial and Inter glacial Carbon Cycles in Lake Baikal | |
Control over Lake Level in the Egiingol Headwater | |
and Present Limnological Conditions | |
Discussion | |
Paleomagnetism and Paleoenvironmental Magnetism Studied | |
Magnetic Properties of BDP981 and the Paleoenvironment | |
Exploratory Studies of Dating the Baikal Drilling Project | |
Paleoenvironmental Changes during theLast12 MillionYears | |
Discussion and Conclusion | |
1Introduction | |
2Materials andMethods | |
4Conclusion | |
Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Eurasian Continental | |
Materials and Methods | |
Interior during the Last 12 Million Years Derived from Organic | |
5Discussion | |
Vegetation Changes in the Baikal Region during the Late | |
References | |
3Record ofPhotosynthetic Pigments in a Gravity CoreG6 from theSouthern Basin for the Last 24 | |
Results | |
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Changes in | |
Lake Level Changes at Lake Hovsgol in the Late Quaternary | |
References | |
and Implications ofHigher 10 Be Concentrations in Sediments | |
5Conclusions | |
Pollen Record from the Chivyrkui Bay Outcrop on the Eastern | |
Biostratigraphic Significance of ExtinctMembers | |
5Conclusions | |
Limnology inLake Baikal and Lake Khubusgul | |
Results and Discussion | |
Suspended andDissolved Forms ofCarbon Nitrogen | |
5Conclusions | |
Matterin the Snow Cover 4 Results | |