Climate shift recorded at around 10 Ma in Miocene succession of Samburu Hills, northern Kenya Rift, and its significance

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 342, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-127

  Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Saneyoshi, Mototaka ^b   Tanaka, Satoshi ^c   Sawada, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^d   Mbua, Emma ^e   Ishida, Hidemi ^f  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; FACIES ANALYSIS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RED SOIL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

KENYA; RIFT VALLEY; SAMBURU;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956002584     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP342.9     Document Type: Article

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