Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and basin structure of the hadar and busidima formations at dikika, Ethiopia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 446, Issue , 2008, Pages 87-118

  Wynn, Jonathan G ^a   Roman, Diana C ^a   Alemseged, Zeresenay ^b   Reed, Denné ^c   Geraads, Denis ^d   Munro, Stephen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Busidima Formation; Ethiopia; Hadar Formation; Hominin evolution; Paleoenvironment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BUSIDIMA FORMATION; ETHIOPIA; HADAR FORMATION; HOMININ EVOLUTION; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT;

FAULTING;

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRABEN; HOMINID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

DIKIKA; ETHIOPIA; HADAR;

EID: 75449097152     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2446(04)     Document Type: Article

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