Drilling Projects By
World
Geological Time
Climate & Ecosystems
Sustainable Georesources
Natural Hazards
Asia
- Maps of Asia
- Boso Peninsula (Japan)
- Chelungpu (Taiwan)
- Dead Sea (Israel)
- Donghai (China)
- Hanoi (Vietnam)
- Koyna (India)
- Lake Baikal (Russia)
- Lake Biwa (Japan)
- Lake El'gygytgyn (Russia)
- Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan)
- Lake Nam Co (China)
- Lake Qinghai (China)
- Lake Towuti (Indonesia)
- Lake Van (Turkey)
- Mutnovsky Volcano (Russia)
- Nankai Trough (Japan)
- NE Japan
- North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
- Oman
- Ryukyu Islands (Japan)
- Songliao Basin (China)
- Songliao - MW-DUL (China)
- Unzen Volcano (Japan)
- Weihe Basin (China)
- Yangtze Craton (China)
Baikal Drilling Project
on geochronology and paleoclimate change
The 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.
