Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 41-60

  Deino, Alan L ^a   Kingston, John D ^b   Glen, Jonathan M ^a,c   Edgar, Robert K ^d   Hill, Andrew ^e  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Harvard University   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

astronomical time scale; climate change; East Africa; Gauss Matuyama boundary; hominin evolution; radiometric dating

Indexed keywords

DIATOMITE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTATION; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETRY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTATION;

CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOMITE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOMAGNETISM; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AULACOSEIRA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; STEPHANODISCUS;

EID: 33745207827     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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