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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lake Naivasha"”.
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Assessment of pesticide concentrations in environmental and biological parameters from two Kenyan Rift Valley Lakes
… have intensified on the riparian fringe of Lake Naivasha, a RAMSAR site. The lake supports a large variety of wildlife and avifauna in particular. In the 1980s, the African Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) population on the lake was the densest in Africa. As a top predator resident in the …
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Explosive Volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: A Tephrostratigraphic Perspective
… incomplete and poorly dated or correlated. Lake sediment records offer an opportunity to establish more comprehensive records of volcanism. In this study, two ~Holocene sediment core sequences, Lake Chala (Tanzania) and Lake Naivasha (Kenya), are investigated for the presence of cryptotephra …
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East African climate variability on different time scales : the Suguta Valley in the African-Asian Monsoon Domain
… Here, I present a high-resolution multiproxy lake-level record spanning the AHP from the remote Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift, located between the WAM and ISM domains. The presently desiccated valley was during the AHP filled by a 300 m deep and 2200 km2 large palaeo-lake due to an …
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Hydrology across scales : sensitivity of East African lakes to climate changes
The lakes of the East African Rift System (EARS) have been intensively studied to better understand the influence of climate change on hydrological systems. The exceptional sensitivity of these rift lakes, however, is both a challenge and an opportunity when trying to reconstruct past climate …
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Change in lithic technological organization strategies during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in east Africa
… the research objective I analyzed six flaked stone artifact assemblages from three different archaeological sites located in the Lake Naivasha basin. Three MSA assemblages from Marmonet Drift are dated >110 ka, 110-94 ka, and <94 ka; two early LSA assemblages from Enkapune Ya Muto date …