Lake Baikal record of continental climate response to orbital insolation during the past 5 million years

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5340, 1997, Pages 1114-1117

  Williams, D F ^a   Peck, J ^b   Karabanov, E B ^a,c   Prokopenko, A A ^a,d   Kravchinsky, V ^c   King, J ^b   Kuzmin, M I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER;

BIOGENIC SILICA; LAKE SEDIMENT; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, LAKE BAIKAL;

EID: 0030686553     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5340.1114     Document Type: Article

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57. We thank the Leg II Scientific Drilling Team led by D. Lykov, V. Gelety, G. Kalmychkov, and A. Goreglyad; Captain M. I. Kazakov and the crew of the BDP support ship Ulan Ude; T. B. Bunaeva and M. Khomuva for their linguistic help; and the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science and the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust (W. Murray) for purchasing the support ship Ulan Ude for Baikal drilling. Supported by NSF grants EAR-9317204 and EAR 94-13957 (D.F.W.), the Russian Ministry of Science (M.I.K.), the Science and Technology Agency of Japan (T. Kawai), and the Alfred Wegener Institute (H. Oberhansli). Biogenic silica data are from the Institute of Geochemistry.