[HTML][HTML] By the lakeshore: Multi-scalar geoarchaeology in the Turkana Basin at GaJj17, Koobi Fora (Kenya)

KL Ranhorn, SS Mavuso, D Colarossi… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Pleistocene archaeological record in the Turkana Basin is important for
studying Homo sapiens evolution, but the record in this region is poorly documented …

Anthropogenic litter pollution in selected African transboundary and Great Rift Valley lakes

E Okuku, MM Kombo, CS Mwalugha… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2024 - Elsevier
Litter pollution is a growing problem affecting almost all the world's oceans, lakes, and rivers.
Comprehensive beach and floating litter surveys were carried out in select African Great …

An Isotope Mass Balance Analysis of Evaporative Loss From Lake Turkana, Kenya Using δ18O and δD of Natural Waters

M Saslaw, D Yang, D Lee, CJ Poulsen… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios (δ18O and δD) in meteoric
waters provide insight to overlapping effects of evaporation, precipitation, and mixing on …

Mercury levels in Nile perch fillets in processing industries in Uganda

MM Kasiiku, A Tamale - Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mercury levels of Nile perch fillets to be exported from selected fish processing industries in
Uganda were determined by hot digestion in strong acids, followed by analysing the extracts …

[HTML][HTML] ICDP workshop on the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin project: exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution over the past 4 Myr

CC Beck, M Berke, CS Feibel, V Foerster, L Olaka… - 2024 - sd.copernicus.org
Scientific drill cores provide unique windows into the processes of the past and present. In
the dynamic tectonic, environmental, climatic, and ecological setting that is eastern Africa …

[HTML][HTML] Future success and ways forward for scientific approaches on the African Great Lakes

TJ Lawrence, AO Achieng, G Chavula… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The seven African Great Lakes are some of the most critical freshwater, large-lake
systems in the world, providing essential services, food, drinking water, and other livelihood …

Lake Turkana

RW Renaut, RB Owen - The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient …, 2023 - Springer
Lake Turkana is the largest of the Kenya Rift lakes and lies within a semi-desert setting.
Early explorers visited the area from 1888 and were followed by research expeditions that …