Summary
Long, high-resolution records preserved in Lake Baikal sediments (BDP-98) suggest that the climate of the Asian continental interior cooled gradually, although not steadily. Major climatolimnological fluctuations had long periods of about 2000 kyr, 1000 kyr, or 600 kyr, in addition to shorter 400-kyr and 100-kyr periods. These possibly correspond to Milankovitch parameters of eccentricity, implying that changes in solar insolation were printed as long-term environmental variations in the eastern Eurasian continental interior. The amplitude of these fluctuations began to increase at about 4.0 Ma, and most orbit-related periods have fluctuated more distinctly since that time. In particular, the 400-kyr filtered fluctuations in the Lake Baikal datasets correspond well with 400-kyr filtered insolation. The beginning of larger fluctuations seems to have been related to obliquity-related insolation minima.
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Kashiwaya, K., Ochiai, S., Tsukahara, H., Sakai, H., Kawai, T. (2003). Long-Term Late Cenozoic Global Environmental Changes Inferred from Lake Baikal Sediments. In: Kashiwaya, K. (eds) Long Continental Records from Lake Baikal. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67859-5_1
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