Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia) and implications for hominin paleoenvironments

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 446, Issue , 2008, Pages 67-85

  Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a   Sier, Mark ^a,b   Campisano, Christopher J ^c,e   Arrowsmith, J Ramón ^d   DiMaggio, Erin ^d   Reed, Kaye ^c   Lockwood, Charles ^e   Franke, Christine ^f   Hüsing, Silja ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

East African Rift; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleoanthropology; Paleoenvironment; Pliocene; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MAGNETITE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PLIOCENE; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPACTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOMINID; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC ROTATION;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIA; HADAR;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS;

EID: 75449098836     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2446(03)     Document Type: Article

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