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Plio-Pleistocene Marine-Continental Correlation using Habitat Indicators from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John Kappelman
John Kappelman*
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Departments of Anthropology and Geology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 88
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Abstract

Reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene habitats and lake levels from a brief interval (∼200,000 yr) of hominid-bearing sediments from Bed I and lower Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, are for the first time integrated with climatic data from the deep-sea in order to examine the effect of largescale climatic events in East Africa. The period of densely vegetated habitats and wet conditions at Olduval at ∼1.82 myr shows a best fit with a period of northern hemisphere warming as evidenced by oxygen isotopes from deep-sea core V28-239 from the western Pacific. This environmental response is similar to that witnessed in East Africa during the period of warming climates associated with deglaciation at ∼10,000–8,000 yr.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 141 - 149
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University of Washington

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