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Pleistocene Events in the Baringo Basin, Kenya Colony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

V. E. Fuchs
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Abstract

A study of the succession within the Lake Baringo Basin shows that the lake deposits originally described as Miocene by J. W. Gregory are of Middle Pleistocene age. In addition an examination of the relation between these deposits, the volcanic episodes and the periods of faulting, shows that climatic change has not been the major factor responsible for past fluctuations of the lake level.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 87 , Issue 3 , June 1950 , pp. 149 - 174
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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