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Baikal Drilling Project

Description

Lake Baikal Drilling SitesThe climate of the Baikal region is characterized by a high degree of continentality. In addition, Lake Baikal has never been glaciated in its 20-25 million year history. The paleoclimate research at Lake Baikal is therefore important because offers unparalleled opportunities to recover a relatively high latitude record of the continental response to atmospheric forcing isolated from marine influences due to its mid-continent position. The sedimentary record of Baikal is also extremely long and continuous with sedimentation rates varying from 1 cm/ky to 1 m/ky. The Baikal record therefore offers exciting opportunities to study paleoclimate change on a variety of temporal scales and resolutions.

  1. Scientific Objectives/Aims/Targets (arranged from near-term to long-term goals)
  2. Develop and calibrate various proxies of paleoclimate change in Lake Baikal sediments.
  3. Develop an accurate geochronology for Baikal sediments.
  4. Develop models for the response of Lake Baikal to paleoclimate change over the last 30ky to 200ky.
  5. Determine the relationship of this response to orbital forcing on Milankovitch timescales (BDP-93.
  6. Recover sediments from the Academician Ridge to determine Baikal's response to northern hemisphere glaciation in the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene (BDP-96).
  7. Recover sediments to determine if sub-orbital responses exist in the Baikal record (BDP-97-98).
  8. Recover sediments to determine how the Selenga River watershed of Baikal has developed with time (BDP-99).
  9. Recover long sedimentary sequences to reveal important new information about the history and seismic stratigraphy of this rift sedimentary basin in response to the geologic history of the Baikal Rift Zone and uplift of the Tibetan Plateau.

(Photos and text ©:Williams)

Location

  • Russia, Siberia, Lake Baikal, 53° 29' N, 108° 10' E

Project Start and End

  • Begin in 1989
  • End in 1999

Programs and Funding

  • Russian Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology
  • Russian Ministry of Geology
  • Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  • Japanese Association for Baikal International Research Program
  • U.S. National Science Foundation, Continental Dynamics Program
  • U.S. Geological Survey, Global Climate Change Program
  • Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust
  • Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam
  • RoscomNedra
  • International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
  • ICDP Germany - German Science Foundation

Principal Investigators

  • Douglas F. Williams University of South Carolina, Department of Geological Sciences
  • Mikhail I. Kuzmin Russian Academy of Sciences, Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch
  • Takayoshi Kawai Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies

Cooperating Principal Investigators

  • Bilal N. Khakhaev NEDRA Drilling Enterprise, Ministry of Geology
  • Hedi Oberhänsli GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, GFZ, Section 3.3 - Climate Dynamics and Sediments

Partners

  • Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk
  • Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk
  • Russian Academy of Sciences, United Institute of Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk
  • Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk
  • NEDRA Drilling Enterprise, Ministry of Geology, Yaroslavl
  • University of South Carolina
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Michigan
  • United States Geological Survey
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japanese Association for Baikal International Research Program (JABIRP), Tsukuba
  • Alfred Wegener Polar Institute, Potsdam
  • GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam

Keywords

  • Lake Drilling, Climate Change, Global Environment

Current State

  • drilling operations and scientific evaluations have been finalized

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