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Turkana Basin

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The Turkana Basin is a large endorheic basin in East Africa, centered around Lake Turkana, a brackish soda lake. The basin is a site of geological subsidence and contains one of the most continuous and well-controlled fossil records of the Plio-Pleistocene, with some fossils dating back to the Cretaceous. The basin's geological setting is characterized by widespread volcanism, subsidence, and alternating fluvial and lacustrine regimes, driven by rifting between the Somali and Nubian plates. The fossil records in the basin have helped establish much of what is known about African faunal evolution in the Neogene and Quaternary.learn more on wikipedia

  1. Two species of ancient human relatives walked side by side in Kenya 1.5 million years ago

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perspectives

  1. 1.Paleontology
  2. 2.Anthropology

countries

  1. 1.KenyaKE

organizations

  1. 1.American Museum of Natural History
  2. 2.Chatham University
  3. 3.La Trobe University
  4. 4.Lehman College
  5. 5.Natural History Museum
  6. 6.New York University
  7. 7.Rutgers University
  8. 8.Stony Brook University
  9. 9.University of Johannesburg

persons

  1. 1.Kevin HatalaUS
  2. 2.Andy HerriesZA
  3. 3.Chris Stringer
  4. 4.Craig Feibel
  5. 5.Dean Falk
  6. 6.María Martinón-Torres
  7. 7.Michelle Langley
  8. 8.Neil Thomas Roach
  9. 9.William Harcourt-SmithUS

technicals

  1. 1.Last Glacial Maximum
  2. 2.Paranthropus Boisei
Turkana Basin