Collaborative Research: Multichannel Seismic Investigation of Lake Baikal and Stratigraphic Studies of the Upper Crust

这是一个合作项目， 调查和俄罗斯科学家从海洋研究所， 湖沼学研究所、地质和地球物理研究所， 地球地壳研究所。 该计划旨在发展 贝加尔裂谷的详细构造和地层历史 系统 该计划的内容包括处理和 解释已收集的多道地震数据， 俄罗斯同事，收集新的，更高的分辨率和 更准确地导航来自贝加尔湖的MCS数据， 以及对这些新数据的解释， 将现有数据集纳入大陆裂谷的综合模型 发展 该方案的目标包括： O 构造和地层重建 贝加尔裂谷部分的演化， 位于贝加尔湖之下 O 建立湖泊演变模型 盆地;以及 O 能够解决问题的适当钻探地点的位置 结构性事件和变化的时间问题 在沉积的模式，这将提供 气候变化研究最连续的部分 和生物进化。

This is a cooperative program involving the U.S. Geological Survey and Russian scientists from the Institute of Oceanology, Institute of Limnology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, and Institute of the Earth's Crust. The program is aimed at developing a detailed structural and stratigraphic history of the Baikal Rift system. Elements of the program include the processing and interpretation of multichannel seismic data already collected by Russian colleagues, the collection of new, higher resolution and more accurately navigated MCS data from Lake Baikal, the processing and interpretation of these new data, and the integration of all available data sets into a comprehensive model of continental rift development. Objectives of the program include: o Reconstruction of the structural and stratigraphic evolution of that portion of the Baikal Rift that underlies Lake Baikal; o Development of models for the evolution of the lake basins; and o Location of appropriate drilling sites that would address the problems of timing of structural events and shifts in patterns of deposition, and that would provide the most continuous sections for studies of climate change and biologic evolution.