the first few meters of sediment, they provided sufficient varves to give proxy climate data for up to 14,570 years BP.

The PALEOVAN project has studied in detail the paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, and sedimentology of Lake Van over the last 600,000 years by using seismic reflection and continuous cores recovered from deep borings. These techniques along with investigation of the chronology and sedimentology of associated onshore terraces have been used to reconstruct