Baikal Drilling Project
Project Acronym: BDP | State: Post Moratorium | Expedition ID: 5003
The climate of the Baikal region is characterized by a high degree of continentality, due to its high-latitude-, mid-continent position. In addition, Lake Baikal has never been glaciated in its 20-25 million year history.
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.
Keywords: Asia, Russia, Siberia, Lake Baikal, Cenozoic, Climate Change, Global Environment, Lake Drilling, Tectonic Evolution
Cores are stored at University of Bremen, MARUM, Germany
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Baikal Drilling Project (BDP)
- Proposed in:
- 1997
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Quaternary
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1(3)
- Drilled length:
- 1815.7 m (9 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 1815.7 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 1815.7 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 100.0%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 100.0%
- Expedition #
- 5003
- Location
- Asia, Russia, Siberia, Lake Baikal, Russia
- Coordinates
- 53.0000, 106.0000
- Status
- Completed