Facies associations of the northern Dandiero Basin (Danakil depression, Eritrea, including the Pleistocene Buya homo site)

Journal of Maps

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-135

  Papini, Mauro ^a   Ghinassi, Massimiliano ^b   Libsekal, Yosief ^c   Rook, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c National Museum of Eritrea   (Eritrea)

Author keywords

Buya; Danakil Depression Eritrea; facies analysis; Homo; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891924258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17445647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2013.862748     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Abbate, E., Albianelli, A., Azzaroli, A., Benvenuti, M., Berhane, T., Bruni, P., Villa, I. (1998). A one-million-year old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea. Nature, 393, 458-460, doi:10.1038/30954. doi: 10.1038/30954
2. Abbate, E., Beraky, W., Bruni, P., Falorni, P., Papini, M., Sagri, M., Tewolde, M. T. (2004). Geology of the Homo-bearing Pleistocene Dandiero Basin (Buia Region, Eritrean Danakil Depression). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 5-34.
3. Abbate, E., Bruni, P., Landucci, F., & Pellicanò, G. (2012). Unusual ichnofossils in Homo Erectus-bearing beds of the Pleistocene lake deposits in central-eastern Eritrea. East Africa. Palaios, 27, 97-104, doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-054r.
4. Albianelli, A., & Napoleone, G. (2004). Magnetostratigraphyof the Homo-bearing Pleistocene Dandiero Basin (Danakil Depression, Eritrea). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 35-44.
5. Benvenuti, M., Mariotti-Lippi, M., Pallecchi, P., & Sagri, M. (2006). Late-Holocene catastrophic floods in the terminal Arno River (Pisa, Central Italy) from the story of a Roman riverine harbor. Holocene, 16, 863-876, doi:10.1191/0959683606hl978rp. doi: 10.1191/0959683606hl978rp
6. Bigazzi, G., Balestrieri, M. L., Norelli, P., Oddone, M., & Tewolde, M. T. (2004). Fission-track dating of a tephra layer in the Alat formation of the Dandiero Group (Danakil Depression, Eritrea). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 45-49.
7. Bondioli, L., Coppa, A., Frayer, D. W., Libsekal, Y., Rook, L., & Macchiarelli, R. (2006). A one million year old human pubic symphysis. Journal of Human Evolution, 50, 479-483, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.01.001. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.01.001
8. Bridge, J. S. (2003). Rivers and floodplains. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, doi:10.1002/jqs.856.
9. Delfino, M., Segid, A., Yosief, D., Shoshani, J., Rook, L., & Libsekal, Y. (2004). Fossil reptiles from the Pleistocene Homo-bearing locality of Buia (Eritrea Northern Danakil Depression). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 51-60.
10. Ferretti, M. P., Ficcarelli, G., Libsekal, Y., Tecle, T. M., & Rook, L. (2003). Fossil elephants from Buia (northern Afar Depression, Eritrea) with remarks on the systematics of Elephas recki (Proboscidea, Elephantidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 244-257, doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[244:FEFBNA]2.0.CO;2. doi: 10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[244:FEFBNA]2.0.CO;2
11. Ghinassi, M., Colonese, A. C., DI Giuseppe, Z., Govoni, L., Lo Vetro, D., Malavasi, G., Sala, B. (2009a). The Late Pleistocene clastic deposits in the Romito Cave, southern Italy: A proxy record of environmental changes and human presence. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24, 383-398, doi:10.1002/jqs.1236. doi: 10.1002/jqs.1236
12. Ghinassi, M., Papini, M., Yosieph, L., & Rook, L. (2009b). Palaeoenvironments of the Buia Homo site: High-resolution facies analysis and non-marine sequence stratigraphy in the Alat formation (Pleistocene Dandiero Basin, Danakil depression, Eritrea). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 280, 415-431, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.029. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.029
13. Ghinassi, M. (2011). Chute channels in the Holocene high sinuosity-river deposits of the Firenze plain, Tuscany, Italy. Sedimentology, 58, 618-642, doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01176.x. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01176.x
14. Ghinassi, M., Billi, P., Libsekal, Y., Papini, M., & Rook, L. (in press). Inferring fluvial morphodynamics and overbank flow control from 3D outcrop sections of a Pleistocene point bar, Dandiero Basin, Eritrea. Journal of Sedimentary Research, DOI:doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2013.80.
15. Macchiarelli, R., Bondioli, L., Chech, M., Coppa, A., Fiore, I., Russom, R., Rook, L. (2004). The late Early Pleistocene human remains from Buia, Danakil Depression, Eritrea. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 133-144.
16. Martínez-Navarro, B., Rook, L., Papini, M., & Libsekal, Y. (2010). A new species of bull from the Early Pleistocene paleoanthropological site of Buia (Eritrea): Parallelism on the dispersal of the genus Bos and the Acheulian culture. Quaternary International, 212, 169-175, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.003. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.003
17. Martínez-Navarro, B., Rook, L., Segid, A., Yosieph, D., Ferretti, M. P., Shoshani, J., Libsekal, Y. (2004). The large fossil mammals from Buia (Eritrea): systematics, biochronology and paleoenvironments. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 61-88.
18. Martini, F., Libsekal, Y., Filippi, O., Ghebreher, A., Kashay, H., Kiros, A., Yamane, S. (2004). Characterization of lithic complexes from Buia (Dandiero Basin, Danakil Depression, Eritrea). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 110(supplement), 99-132.
19. Postma, G. (1990). Depositional architecture and facies of river and fan deltas: A synthesis. In A. Colella, D. B. Prior (Eds.), Coarse-grained deltas: International association of sedimentologists (pp. 13-27), Special Publications, 10, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.211.01.10.
20. Rook, L., Ghinassi, M., Libsekal, Y., Martínez-Navarro, B., Medin, T., & Papini, M. (2010). Stratigraphic context and taxonomic assessment of the large cercopithecoid (Primates, Mammalia) from the late Early Pleistocene palaeoanthropological site of Buia (Eritrea). Journal of Human Evolution, 59, 692-697, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.018. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.018
21. Talbot, M., & Allen, P. A. (1996). Lakes. In H. G. Reading (Ed.), Sedimentary environments (pp. 83-124). Blackwell Publishing.
22. Viseras, C., Soria, J. M., Durán, J. J., Pla, S., Garrido, G., García-García, F., & Arribas, A. (2006). A large-mammal site in a meandering fluvial context (Fonelas P-1, Late Pliocene, Guadix Basin, Spain) Sedimentological keys for its paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 242, 139-168, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.013. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.013