Recurrent spring-fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene semi-arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya

Sedimentology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1611-1635

  Beverly, Emily J ^a   Driese, Steven G ^a   Peppe, Daniel J ^a   Johnson, Cara R ^b   Michel, Lauren A ^a,c   Faith, J Tyler ^d   Tryon, Christian A ^e   Sharp, Warren D ^f  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c Perot Museum of Nature and Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

East Africa; human evolution; Karungu; Lake Victoria; Middle to Late Pleistocene; riverine tufa; Rusinga Island; semi arid environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CALCITE; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVERS;

ANIMAL COMMUNITIES; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; ARID ENVIRONMENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; SEMI-ARID GRASSLANDS; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84930185340     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12199     Document Type: Article

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