Under a Creative Commons license open access Keywords Paleolake succession Drilling core Paleoclimate changes Tephrochronology Electrical resistivity tomography 1. Introduction Lake sediments hosted in volcanic craters provide continuous sedimentary successions ideal for multi-proxy paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental studies (e.g., Mingram et al., 2004; Brauer et al., 2007; White and Ross, 2011; Marchetto et al., 2015; Lacey et al., 2015; Chu et al., 2014; Wu et al., 2019 for review).