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The following stages in the formation of sediments in Lake Baikal have been distinguished. In the Middle Miocene lacustrine deposits accumulated in the southern depression. In Early and Middle Pliocene, as well as in Early-Middle Pleistocene the bottom of the southern and middle Baikal depressions was occupied by large lakes, but the northern basin was mainly dry with a system of small lakes, streams and rivers. This accounts for the great facies variety and the genetic heterogeneity of sediments in the northern depression. At the end of Middle and in the Late Pleistocene an abrupt warping of the depression took place, and a shore-line similar to the present one was formed. Sands in the upper part of the sediments are considered to be the product of intensive erosion which probably occurred in the pluvial epoch in the Late Pleistocene period.
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Belova, V.A., Lut, B.F., Loginova, L.P. et al. Sediment formation in Lake Baikal. Hydrobiologia 103, 281–285 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028467
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