title: Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal.
abstract: The new BDP-98 drill core of the Baikal Drilling Project is a key palaeoclimate record in continental Asia because globally sensitive sedimentary records of such length and continuity are very rare. Kashiwaya et al. have attempted signal processing of the BDP-98 average grain-size record, but in constructing their age model they excised a 100-metre interval from the 600-metre section, stating that it is "erroneous". On the basis of our lithological studies, we consider that this excision is unjustified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. sasha@geol.sc.edu
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Prokopenko
authors.forename: Eugene B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Karabanov
authors.forename: Douglas F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Williams