We established a mastercurve “Baikal 200” of relative paleointensity, which represents a new synthetic paleomagnetic archive for Central Eurasia. The synthetic record is composed of mean values of the six records with respect to a sliding time window of 2 ka. This compilation has been restricted to the last 200 ka in order to maintain a representative population of points (between 2 and 68). However, we present this synthetic record together with individual records and the reference paleointensity curve (Fig. 11) for the following reasons:

– Each relative paleointensity record has a different resolution (e.g., sedimentation rates in CON 01-605-3 are five times higher than in VER 98-1-14). During stack procedure, smoothing of the data had the effect of lowering the resolution of the paleomagnetic information.

– This stack does not provide more information on timing of the geodynamo changes since the records are tuned to ODP Site 984.