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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"naivasha"”.
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
… site of Prospect Farm, Mt. Eburru, Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya, as part of the In-Africa project (INAP). The Prospect Farm Formation preserves a stratified sequence covering the last glacial period and Holocene, in which four main archaeological phases covering the MSA to Late Stone Age …
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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 Kenyan …
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Explosive Volcanism in the Kenyan Rift: A Tephrostratigraphic Perspective
… core sequences, Lake Chala (Tanzania) and Lake Naivasha (Kenya), are investigated for the presence of cryptotephra deposits to provide better constraints on eruption histories. The complete Holocene tephrostratigraphy for Lake Chala includes 26 cryptotephra deposits and two visible tephra layers …
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Hydro- and biogeochemical investigations of lake sediments in the Kenyan Rift Valley
… in der Region Kangirinyang), Baringo, Bogoria, Naivasha, Oloiden und Sonachi. Die Biomarker-Zusammensetzungen in den untersuchten Seesedimenten waren ähnlich; allerdings gab es einige Unterschiede zwischen den salinen Seen und den Süßwasserseen. Einer dieser Unterschiede war das Vorkommen eines …
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East African climate variability on different time scales : the Suguta Valley in the African-Asian Monsoon Domain
… over Ethiopia and West-Africa. 200 years - Lake Naivasha | The second part of the thesis focused on the analysis of a 200 year-old sediment core from Lake Naivasha in the Central Kenya Rift, one of the very few present freshwater lakes in East Africa. The results revealed and confirmed, that the …
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Hydrology across scales : sensitivity of East African lakes to climate changes
… resistivity and water-well data for the adjacent Naivasha and Elmenteita-Nakuru basins in the Central Kenya Rift. Using this subsurface information and established records of lake-level decline at the last wet-dry climate transitions, i.e., the termination of the African Humid Period (AHP, 15 to 5 …
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Lake-level fluctuations and Late Quaternary climate change in the Central Kenya Rift
… zeigen sich für die Seen Nakuru, Elmenteita und Naivasha kurzfristige Transgression/ Regressions-Zyklen im Intervall von ca. 11.000 Jahren während des letzten (ca. 12.000 bis 6.000 J.v.H.) und vorletzten Interglazials (ca. 140.000 bis 60.000 J.v.H.). Zusätzlich kann ein allgemeiner, langfristiger …
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Morbidity and mortality among 5-17 year old children admitted in five hospitals in Kenya in the year 2013
… records at Kisii Level 5 Hospital (KL5H), Naivasha County Referral Hospital, Karatina Hospital, Garissa Provincial General Hospital, Mbagathi District Hospital , and Gertrude ' s Children ' s Hospital in Kenya , of patients who presented from the 1st day of January to 31st December 2013. …
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Change in lithic technological organization strategies during the Middle and Later Stone Ages in east Africa
… 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 from >40 to 36 ka; and one LSA assemblage from Ol Tepesi dates to 19 ka. Assemblages were …
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The power to flourish: Unearthing the roots of Kenyan flower producers' market access strategies
Powering Kenya’s agricultural economy, the Kenyan flower industry is prided as an example of successful African integration into global agricultural trade. Export markets are bifurcated due to a marked shift from the Dutch flower auctions and an increase in trade within ‘direct markets’ which …