The Holocene history of Lake Victoria

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Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-11

  Johnson, Thomas C ^a   Kelts, Kerry ^b   Odada, Eric ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^d IGBP Past Global Changes Program   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAKE; LAKE LEVEL; SEISMIC DATA;

AFRICA; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 0034016408     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-29.1.2     Document Type: Article

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54. We thank the governments of Tanzania and Uganda for providing IDEAL researchers access to their territorial waters of Lake Victoria in 1995 and 1996, and the scientists and staff of the Ugandan Fisheries Research Institute in Jinja, under the direction of Dr. Fred Bugenyi, for logistical support. This manuscript benefited from the thoughtful reviews by Henry F. Lamb and Michael R. Talbot. Funding was provided by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation to T. C. Johnson and K. Kelts. This is publication number 78 of the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL).