The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient: Limnology and Limnogeology of Tropical Lakes in a Continental Rift - Couverture rigide

Renaut, Robin W.; Owen, Richard Bernhart

 
9783642250545: The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient: Limnology and Limnogeology of Tropical Lakes in a Continental Rift

Synopsis

First fully-illustrated book to document all the Kenya Rift lakes in detail

Multidisciplinary treatment to serve several disciplines (geology, limnology, ecology)

An up-to-date chapter on the geological evolution of the Kenya Rift Valley

Provides context for sites of international archeological and paleoanthropological (hominin) interest

Source book for the geology and limnogeology of the Kenya Rift lakes

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À propos de l?auteur

Robin Renaut is emeritus professor at University of Saskatchewan, where he taught sedimentology and limnogeology for more than 30 years. His research focus has been on sedimentation, hydrochemistry, and environmental history of the saline alkaline lakes of the Kenya Rift Valley, and hydrothermal spring deposits in Kenya and New Zealand.

Bernie Owen has taught a variety of geology and physical geography subjects in both Malawi and Hong Kong. He is currently emeritus professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University and continues his research into palaeoenvironments, sedimentology, geochemistry and micropalaeontology in lake and spring settings.

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