The geological, lsotopic, botanical, invertebrate, and lower vertebrate surroundings of ardipithecus ramidus

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5949, 2009, Pages

  Woldegabriel, Giday ^a   Ambrose, Stanley H ^b   Barboni, Doris ^c   Bonnefille, Raymonde ^c   Bremond, Laurent ^d   Currie, Brian ^e   Degusta, David ^f   Hart, William K ^e   Murray, Alison M ^g   Renne, Paul R ^h,i   Jolly Saad, M C ^j   Stewart, Kathlyn M ^k   White, Tim D ⁱ  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^k CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; OXYGEN; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ARGON ISOTOPE; BIOTOPE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DEPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; GRASS; HOMINID; INVERTEBRATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYTOLITH; TAPHONOMY; TUFF; WOODLAND;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; ARTICLE; BIOTOPE; FLORA; FOREST; GEOLOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAPHONOMY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FLOWER; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

AFAR; AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARDIPITHECUS RAMIDUS; HOMINIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ETHIOPIA; FLOWERS; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HOMINIDAE; INVERTEBRATES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 70349673422     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175817     Document Type: Article

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