Lake Hovsgol basin as a new study site for long continental paleoclimate records in continental interior Asia: General context and current status

Terrestrial plant microfossils in palaeoenvironmental studies, pollen, microcharcoal and phytolith. Towards a comprehensive understanding of vegetation, fire and climate changes over the past one million years

“…However, pollen data from Lake El' El'gygytgyn are so far available for selected periods only, mostly interglacial periods (Melles et al, 2012;Wenwei et al, 2018)). In the Baikal region, although both sedimentary archives are continuous, pollen records are not because of low pollen concentrations in glacial sediments (Prokopenko et al, 2010;Prokopenko et al, 2009). A global synthesis of the available marine pollen records (Sánchez Goñi et al, 2018) reveals that among the 129 sites listed, 19 cover several climatic cycles, 8 go beyond the Mid-Brunhes event with only 3 sites covering entirely the Middle Pleistocene.…”

Physical interpretation of isothermal remanent magnetization end‐members: New insights into the environmental history of Lake Hovsgul, Mongolia

“…Sediment thickness and paleomagnetic record of the upper 50 m yield an estimated age of more than 5 Ma for Lake Hovsgul (also transliterated as Khubsugul or Khovsgol) [ Fedotov et al ., ; Prokopenko et al ., ]. This makes it one of the most ancient lakes on Earth.…”

“…The Limnological Institute at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) as a part of the Russian‐Mongolian joint Khubsugul Drilling Project (KDP) drilled core KDP‐01 in the winter 2002–2003 using a push‐coring device (AR “Irkutskgeologiya”) [ Prokopenko et al ., ]. The coring site is located in the center of the lake, at N, E in a water depth of 239.3 m. The drill hole reached a maximum depth of 53 m, from which sediment cores with a total length of 48 m were recovered.…”

A10Be Moraine Chronology of the Last Glaciation and Termination at 49°N in the Mongolian Altai of Central Asia

“…The timing and magnitude of Pleistocene glacier advances in the broader Altai have been the subject of prior investigations (Lehmkuhl et al, 2004(Lehmkuhl et al, , 2007(Lehmkuhl et al, , 2011(Lehmkuhl et al, , 2016Blomdin et al, 2016;Dong et al, 2020;Gribenski et al, 2016Gribenski et al, , 2018Klinge et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2017). A number of chronologies indicate that full-glacial configurations of Central Asian mountain glaciers were achieved not only at the time of the global LGM during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2 (∼29-14 ka; Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005), but also preceding the global LGM during MIS 3 (∼57-29 ka; Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) (Batbaatar et al, 2018;Blomdin et al, 2018;Dong et al, 2020; Gillespie et al, 2008;Gribenski et al, 2016Gribenski et al, , 2018Klinge et al, 2021;Krivonogov et al, 2012;Lehmkuhl et al, 2011;Prokopenko et al, 2009;Rother et al, 2014). Debate remains as to whether glacial advances during the local Last Glaciation were synchronous throughout Central Asia (e.g., Batbaatar et al, 2018); these issues may reflect the scarcity of well-resolved glacial chronologies or lack of landform preservation.…”