Paleosol data from Kenya.
| datacite.nameIdentifier | 0000-0003-4356-9240 | en_US |
| datacite.nameIdentifierScheme | ORCID | |
| dc.contributor.author | Retallack, Greg J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-21T19:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-11-21T19:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-11-21 | |
| dc.description | These data were collected to evaluate the changing vegetation and paleoclimate of Kenya over the past 20 million years, and its relevance for human evolution. Data was collected in several areas of Kenya with Cenozoic deposits well known for fossil mammals, including islands and shores of Lake Victoria, the central and southern Gregory Rift, and the basin of Lake Turkana. data are largely measurements of key characteristics of fossil soils (paleosols) in the field: depth to the carbonate (Bk) horizon, thickness of the carbonate (Bk) horizon and size of the carbonate nodules. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Data collected in several areas of Kenya with Cenozoic deposits well known for fossil mammals, including islands and shores of Lake Victoria, the central and southern Gregory Rift, and the basin of Lake Turkana. Data are largely measurements of key characteristics of fossil soils (paleosols) in the field: depth to the carbonate (Bk) horizon, thickness of the carbonate (Bk) horizon and size of the carbonate nodules. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Paleoanthropology Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation; NSF grants EAR8206183, EAR85023232, SBR9513175 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/20731 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4356-9240 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://doi.org/10.7264/D3MW2K | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation | Retallack, G.J., 2007, Supplementary Information for “Paleosols”. In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume 1. Principles, methods and approaches, edited by W. Henke and I. Tattersall, Springer, Berlin, p. 383-408. | |
| dc.relation | Retallack, G.J., 2013, Global cooling by grasslands in the geological past and near future. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 41, 5.1-18. | |
| dc.relation | Retallack, G.J., 2014, Paleosols. In Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Volume 1. Principles, methods and approaches, edited by W. Henke and I. Tattersall, Springer, Berlin, p. 383-408. | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal | en_US |
| dc.subject | Paleosols | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kenya | en |
| dc.subject | Cenozoic | en |
| dc.subject | Paleoclimate | en |
| dc.subject | Paleobotany | en |
| dc.title | Paleosol data from Kenya. | en_US |
| dc.type | Dataset | en_US |
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- Sites for fossil leaves in the Miocene of Kenya
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- Chemical composition of non-calcareous parts of Kenyan Miocene paleosols
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- General characteristics of Kenyan Miocene paleosols
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- Depth to carbonate nodules in Kenyan Miocene paleosols
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- Readme file describing the data, sources, and related publications.
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