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Sedimentation history of the Selenga Delta, Lake Baikal: simulation and interpretation

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The computer simulation of a Lake Baikal seismic profile located in the Selenga River Delta area resulted in a lake level record of the last 600 kyr. This curve demonstrates several low-magnitude episodes and both a dramatic 300 m fall and a more than 150 m increase of the lake level relative to present situation. The greatest change in paleo-lake depth at 300 ka corresponds in time with the major glaciation in the Eastern Siberia and is probably the response of the lake to this climatic phenomenon. The results of this study conform with existing hypotheses on the regional tectonic history and climatic events.

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    P. A. Romashkin & D. F. Williams

  2. United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, University Ave 3, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090

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Romashkin, P.A., Williams, D.F. Sedimentation history of the Selenga Delta, Lake Baikal: simulation and interpretation. Journal of Paleolimnology 18, 181–188 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007932632207

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