“…Instead, it provides a unique opportunity for testing the envelope of environmental conditions assumed essential for dolomite formation. If juxtaposed with environmental proxies reflecting regional and local hydrological conditions (Kwiecien et al, ; Litt et al, ; North et al, ; Pickarski, Kwiecien, Djamali, et al, ; Pickarski, Kwiecien, Langgut, et al, ; Pickarski & Litt, ; Randlett et al, ; Stockhecke, Sturm, et al, ; Tomonaga et al, ) (Figure ), the dolomite occurrence is incompatible with the commonly accepted hypothesis of evaporitic conditions driving its formation. Our high‐resolution dolomite concentration data (Figure ), presented on the common Lake Van age model (Stockhecke, Kwiecien, et al, ), suggest that most of the dolomite‐rich intervals coincide with sediments deposited during a high lake level and generally wetter conditions.…”