Geological Background to Fossil Man: Recent Research in the Gregory Rift Valley, East Africa

Geological background to fossil man : recent research in the Gregory Rift Valley, East Africa / edited by Walter W. Bishop

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 585 pp., 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (5)) : illustrations. Contents; Rifting in East Africa & large-scale tectonic processes / E.R. Oxburgh -- Structural development of the East African Rift System / R.M. Shackleton -- Structural volcanic evolution of the Gregory Rift Valley / B.C. King -- Character of quaternary volcanism in the Gregory Rift Valley / L.A.J. Williams -- Geophysical investigations & the rift Valley geology of Kenya / M. Aftab Khan & C.J. Swain -- Taphonomical background to fossil man -- problems in palaeoecology / A. Hill -- A statistical approach to temporal biostratigraphy / R.T. Shuey [and others] -- Allometry & hominid studies / B.A. Wood -- First geologists -- the archaeology of the original rock breakers / G. LL. Isaac -- Olduvai Gorge 1911-1975 : a history of the investigations / M.D. Leakey -- Fossil hominids from the Laetolil Beds, Tanzania / M.D. Leakey [and others] -- Geological map of the Olorgesailie Area, Kenya / R.M. Shackleton -- Olorgesailie formation : stratigraphy, tectonics & the palaeogeographic context of the Middle Pleisrocene archaeological sites / G. LL. Isaac -- Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo Basin, Kenya / G.R. Chapman & M. Brook -- Preliminary observations on the paleomagnetic stratigraphy of the area west of Lake Baringo, Kenya / P. Dagley, A.E. Mussett, & H.C. Palmer. Geology, paleoenvironments & vertebrate faunas of the mid-Miocene Ngorora Formation, Kenya / M.H.L. Pickford -- Stratigraphy & mammalian paleontology of the late-Miocene Lukieno Formation, Kenya / M.H.L. Pickford -- Fossil Hippopoptamidae from the Baringo asin & relationships within the Gregory Rift, Kenya / S.C. Coryndon -- Fossil bovidae of the Baringo Area, Kenya / A.W. Gentry -- Geological framework of the Kilombe Acheulian archaeological site, Kenya / W.W. Bishop -- Kilombe -- an Acheulian site complex in Kenya / J.A.J. Gowlett -- Geological setting of the hominid fossils & Acheulian artifacts from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo District, Kenya / P.W.J. Tallon -- The early history of the Turkana depression / R.J.G. Savage & P.G. Williamson -- Stratigraphy, sedimentray facies & palaeoenvironments, East Lake Turkana, Kenya / C.F. Vondra & B.E. Bowen -- Isochronous surfaces within the Plio-Pleistocene sediments east of Lake Turkana / I.C. Findlater -- Correlation of Plio-Pleistocene sequences in the northern Lake Turkana Basin / A.K. Behrensmeyer -- Geochronological problems & radioisotopic dating in the Gregory Valley Rift / F.J. Fitch, P.J. Hooker, & J.A. Miller -- Age of KBS Tuff in Koobi Fora Formation, Est Lake Turkana, Kenya / G.H. Curtis [and others] -- Magneto-stratigraphy east of Lake Turkana & at Olduvai Gorge : a brief summary / A. Brock.Observations of problems of correlation of late Cenozoic hominid-bearing formations in the North Lake Turkana Basin / F.H. Brown, F.C. Howell & G.G. Eck -- Evolution of hominids & of their environment during the Plio-Pleistocene in the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia / Y. Coppens -- Evidence for the major features & development of Rift Palaeolakes in the Neogene of East Africa from certain aspects of lacustrine mollusc assemblages / P.G. Willianson -- Aspects of early Pleistocene homini behaviour east of Lake Turkana, Kenya / J.W.K. Harris & I. Herbich -- Geological framework of the Pliocene Hadar Formation (Afar, Ethiopia) with notes on palaeontology including hominids / D.C. Johanson [and others]. Subjects; From 65 million years ago. Geology, Stratigraphic Cenozoic ; Congresses. Geology Africa, East. Fossil hominids. Vertebrates. Paleontology. Anthropology. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 415480

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