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Deep drilling in lakes sponsored by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) is bringing new light into climatic forcing at different geographical scales and various temporal resolutions. The ICDP approach is changing our views of continental records integrating a broad range of techniques in the same fashion than in the marine realm. This approach provides new means to tackle challenging geoscientific aspects of socio-economic relevance that go beyond paleoclimate and also include earthquakes, volcanism, and, more recently, the subsurface biosphere. The principal goal of this session is to summarize and review recent scientific achievements and future goals in continental drilling of sedimentary systems and discuss how these records shed new light on tectonic, climatic and environmental processes. We also encourage contributions from non-ICDP continental drilling projects or from outcrop studies of Quaternary deposits that can serve as analogues of drilled sections.