Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: Correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-111

  Blegen, Nick ^a   Tryon, Christian A ^b   Faith, J Tyler ^c   Peppe, Daniel J ^d   Beverly, Emily J ^d   Li, Bo ^e   Jacobs, Zenobia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

East Africa; Human evolution; Middle Stone Age; Tephrostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; LAKES; LUMINESCENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

EARLY PLEISTOCENE; EAST AFRICA; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MAJOR AND MINOR ELEMENTS; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; STONE AGE; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS;

DEPOSITS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CORRELATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MESOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; HOMA BAY; KENYA; LAKE VICTORIA; RUSINGA ISLAND;

EID: 84930185341     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.04.024     Document Type: Article

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