Geology and palaeontology of the Late Miocene Middle Awash valley, Afar rift, Ethiopia

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6843, 2001, Pages 175-178

  WoldeGabriel, Giday ^a   Haile Selassie, Yohannes ^b   Renne, Paul R ^b,c   Hart, William K ^d   Ambrose, Stanley H ^e   Asfaw, Berhane ^f   Heiken, Grant ^g   White, Tim ^b  

^a EES 6/MS D462 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSITION ZONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGY;

MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SAVANNA; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOMINID; KENYA; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY;

ETHIOPIA;

HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035849857     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084058     Document Type: Article

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