Paleoclimate Records from the Lake Baikal Sediments and Lava Formations of the South Baikal Volcanic Area

Plio‐Pleistocene Establishment of Irtysh River in Junggar, Northwest China: Implications for Siberian‐Arctic River System Evolution and Resulting Climate Impact

“…Approximately 1000 km away, Lake Baikal, located in the southern Siberia (Fig. 1a), has preserved continuous terrestrial records of late-Pliocene regional paleoclimate changes in central Asia (Antipina et al, 2001;Kuzmin et al, 2000;Kuzmin et al, 2003;Williams et al, 1997). Sharp drop in diatom abundance and rise in dense glacial clay in lake sediments, as well as the pollenbased temperature and precipitation reconstructions (Fig.…”

“…Westerly moisture transport dominates regional precipitation in this region (Caves et al., 2015; Guo et al., 2002; Tian et al., 2001; Wang, 1990). Approximately 1,000 km away, Lake Baikal, located in the southern Siberia (Figure 1a), has preserved continuous terrestrial records of late‐Pliocene regional paleoclimate changes in central Asia (Antipina et al., 2001; Kuzmin et al., 2000; Kuzmin et al., 2003; Williams et al., 1997). Sharp drop in diatom abundance and rise in dense glacial clay in lake sediments, as well as the pollen‐based temperature and precipitation reconstructions (Figure 1b) indicate intensive terrestrial glacial expansion accompanying the abrupt cooling in central Asia and increasing moisture delivery to the Eurasian continent at this time.…”

“…(b) Global and regional terrestrial paleoclimatic proxies for the past 6 Ma. From bottom to top, deep‐sea oxygen records from ODP Site 659 in east Atlantic (Tiedemann et al., 1994); diatom abundance and dense glacial clay in sediments from Lake Baikal (BDP‐98) (Kuzmin et al., 2003); pollen‐based temperature and precipitation reconstructions from onshore sediments of Baikal (Antipina et al., 2001; Vorobyova et al., 1995). (c) Topographic and geologic maps of Junggar Basin.…”