Carbonate horizons, paleosols, and lake flooding cycles: Beds I and II of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 328-341

  Bennett, Carys E ^a,b   Marshall, Jim D ^a   Stanistreet, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early diagenesis; Paleoenvironment; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE ROCK; CLAYSTONE; DIAGENESIS; FLOODING; HOMINID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARUSHA [TANZANIA]; OLDUVAI GORGE; TANZANIA;

ROSA;

EID: 84864545820     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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