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Lake-level changes during the past 100,000 years at Lake Baikal, southern Siberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Atsushi Urabe ,
Masaaki Tateishi ,
Yoshio Inouchi ,
Hirokazu Matsuoka ,
Takahiko Inoue ,
Alexsander Dmytriev  and
Oleg M. Khlystov
Atsushi Urabe*
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Hazards in Snowy Areas, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
Masaaki Tateishi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
Yoshio Inouchi
Affiliation:
Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
Hirokazu Matsuoka
Affiliation:
Kowa Consulting Office, Tokyo 202-0022, Japan
Takahiko Inoue
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
Alexsander Dmytriev
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Geological Data Processing and Geological Ecology, State Technical University, Irkutsk 664074, Russia
Oleg M. Khlystov
Affiliation:
Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Irkutsk 664033, Russia
*
*Corresponding author. Research Institute for Hazards in Snowy Areas, Niigata University, 8050 Ikarashi 2-cho Niigata 950-2181, Japan. Fax: +81 25 261 1699. E-mail address:urabe@gs.niigata-u.ac.jp(A. Urabe).
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Abstract

Lake-level changes inferred from seismic surveying and core sampling of the floor of Lake Baikal near the Selenga River delta can be used to constrain regional climatic history and appear to be correlated to global climate changes represented by marine oxygen isotope stages (MIS). The reflection pattern and correlation to the isotope stages indicate that the topset and progradational foreset sediments of the deltas formed during periods of stable lake levels and warm climatic conditions. During warm stages, the lake level was high, and during cold stages it was low. The drop in the lake level due to cooling from MIS 5 through MIS 4 is estimated to be 33–38 m; from MIS 3 through MIS 2, it fell an additional 11–15 m. Because the lake level is chiefly controlled by evaporation and river input, we infer that more water was supplied to Lake Baikal during warm stages.

Keywords

Seismic surveySelenga DeltaMarine oxygen isotope stageLake-level changeLake Baikal
Type
Short Paper
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Quaternary Research , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , September 2004 , pp. 214 - 222
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University of Washington

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