Impacts of flamingos on saline lake margin and shallow lacustrine sediments in the Kenya Rift Valley

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 277-278, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-51

  Scott, Jennifer J ^a   Renaut, Robin W ^a   Owen, R Bernhart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biogenic structures; Bioturbation; East African lakes; Flamingo; Mud mounds; Thrombolite

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC STRUCTURES; BIOTURBATION; EAST AFRICANS; FLAMINGO; MUD MOUNDS; THROMBOLITE;

LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

BIOTURBATION; FOOTPRINT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MUD MOUND; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SALINE LAKE; SHALLOW WATER; THROMBOLITE; TIMESCALE; WADER;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KENYA; KENYA RIFT; LAKE BOGORIA; LAKE MAGADI; RIFT VALLEY;

BOGORIA; PHOENICOPTERIDAE;

EID: 84865744511     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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