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from Part III - Eastern and Central Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
In the 1880s, Gustav Fischer was the first European to see the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano (Dawson, 2008) and, with Joseph Thomson, to visit Lake Natron (Gregory, 1921). The first systematic geological studies in the area were carried out by Carl Uhlig, who in 1904 surveyed the Manyara–Natron fault and noted the asymmetry of this sector of the rift (Dawson, 2008). Guest (1953) mapped and studied the volcanics of Lake Natron, and Baker (1963) compared the lacustrine beds of lakes Magadi and Natron. However, it was only in 1959 when Mary Leakey (1984: 124) drove across the area and realized the paleoanthropological potential of the area.
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