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Richard F. Yuretich
Princeton University, where he studied the modern environment of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked for Gulf Oil Corporation, ... Clay minerals as paleoenvironmental indicators in two large lakes of the African Rift Valleys: Lake Malawi and Lake Turkana, in Renaut, R.W. and Ashley, G.M. (eds.) , Sedimentation in Continental Rifts, SEPM ...
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8th Multi-Stakeholder Forum, Athens, June 2003
Cuvelai/Etosha; Gambia; Gash; Incomati; Juba-Shibeli; Komoe; Lake Chad; Lake Natron; Lake Turkana; Limpopo; Lotagipi Swamp; Niger; Nile; Okavango; Orange; Ruvuma; Sabi; Senegal; Volta; Zambezi; African Coordination ...
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Meave and Louise Leakey, Paleontologists Information, Facts, News, Photos -- National Geographic
Kenya's Lake Turkana. This launched her long-term work on the Turkana Basin research project. Meave has worked ... College, London. The Leakeys currently run a research station at Lake Turkana to facilitate data collection and the study of new specimens. ... In 1999, on a National Geographic-sponsored expedition to the Turkana Basin, Meave and Louise uncovered a 3.5-million-year ...
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Christopher Ondaatje - Author and Traveller
Griffin in trouble. A Christmas Day landing on remote South Island, in crocodile-infested Lake Turkana, caused Griffin’s Cessna to sink into the soft black lava beach, badly bending the ... so than a losing battle with an ominously dark thunderstorm covering the Ruwenzori Mountains and Lake Albert on the Zaire (now Congo) border. Somehow he survived. Readers will understand perhaps for ...
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The family Deinotheriidae and genus Deinotherium
East Africa where hominids have been found, including Hadar, Laetoli, Olduvai Gorge and Lake Turkana. Some individuals reached a height of 5 meters, (Deinotherium is the third largest land mammal ...
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World Lake Database --Map of South East Africa--
Lake McIlwaine AFR-10 Lake George AFR-11 Lake Albert AFR-12 Lake Edward AFR-13 Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) AFR-14 Cabora Bassa Reservoir AFR-15 Lake Kyoga AFR-16 Volta Lake AFR-18 Oguta Lake AFR-20 Lake Turkana top TOP of the WLD Search INDEX Lake Name ...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands (AT1313)
Ethiopia, this ecoregion consists primarily of semi-desert grassland and shrubland. The ecoregion encompasses Lake Turkana and the Omo River delta and includes some savanna woodlands to the west. It also ... , a frog, and a species of mud turtle. Surrounded by this dry semi-desert ecoregion, Lake Turkana attracts more than 350 aquatic and terrestrial birds, and Central Island is home to a ...
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Emergencies - Kenya Food Crisis :: Oxfam GB
Oxfam's response Oxfam's response Oxfam is providing support to 63,470 people in Turkana and 139,000 people in Wajir through food distributions, water source rehabilitation, livestock destocking, and ... initiatives such as kitchen vegetable gardens and producing fishing nets and boats to use on Lake Turkana. We are also carrying out an emergency destocking programme where 20,000 shoats (a cross ...
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INdex of World Lakes
Lake Towada) Japan ASI-23 Toya-ko (Lake Toya) Japan ASI-17 Trasimeno, Lago Italy EUR-29 Trummen, Lake Sweden EUR-12 Turkana, Lake Ethiopia/Kenya AFR-20 Twin Lakes USA NAM-21 top U Name Country Ust-Ilimskoye Reservoir Russia ASI-60 Uvildy, Lake ...
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invasive species blog
Alien water weed re-invades Lake Victoria(2/27/2007) Water hyacinth has re-invaded Lake Victoria, choking thousands of acres (hectares) of the lake's surface in Kenya, according ... this frog may make you insane CALENDARS Mount Kenya East Africa Safari Wildlife Kenya's Turkana People Peru African Wildlife Alaska China Madagascar Chameleons CANVAS BAGS Hallucinogenic frog bag Madagascar ...
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