Correlation of Paleoclimatic Records between Chinese Eolian Sediments and Baikal Lacustrine Sediments

摘要

INTRODUCTION Paleo-records from continental sources such as lacustrine sediments and loess deposits have shown that terrestrial climatic change is closely synchronized with global climate change. The Baikal Drilling Project (BDP) has retrieved cores containing 1 600 m of sediment from the Baikal Lake (BKL) since 1993 (Williams et al., 2001). The unique archive contains a series of paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental proxies resolvable on different time scales over the last 5-12 million years (Kashiwaya et al., 2001a). These long cores provide essential records not only for comparison with oceanic records of marine processes, but also for the usage as the benchmarks which can help to interpret other continental records.