The Menengai Tuff: A 36 ka widespread tephra and its chronological relevance to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Africa
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- 作者：Nick Blegena ; nick_blegen@fas.harvard.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; nick.blegen@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Francis H. Brownb ; Brian R. Jichac ; Katie M. Binettid ; J. Tyler Faithe ; Joseph V. Ferrarod ; Patrick N. Gathogob ; Jonathan L. Richardsonf ; Christian A. Tryona
- 关键词：Tephrostratigraphy ; East Africa ; Geochronology ; Human evolution ; Late Pleistocene
- 刊名：Quaternary Science Reviews
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：15 November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：152
- 期：Complete
- 页码：152-168
- 全文大小：5871 K
文摘
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We correlate the Menengai Tuff >115,000 km2 in the Kenyan rift and Victoria basin.
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We provide a 40Ar/39Ar eruptive age of 35.62 ± 0.26 ka for the Menengai Tuff.
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We improve the Late Pleistocene chronostratigraphic important to human evolution.