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The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient

The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient Limnology and Limnogeology of Tropical Lakes in a Continental Rift

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The Kenya Rift Lakes: Modern and Ancient

Limnology and Limnogeology of Tropical Lakes in a Continental Rift

Robin W. Renaut | Richard Bernhart Owen

Science / Earth Sciences / General

First fully-illustrated book to document all the Kenya Rift lakes in detail

Multidisciplinary treatment to serve several disciplines (geology, limnology, ecology)

An up-to-date chapter on the geological evolution of the Kenya Rift Valley

Provides context for sites of international archeological and paleoanthropological (hominin) interest

Source book for the geology and limnogeology of the Kenya Rift lakes

Robin Renaut is emeritus professor at University of Saskatchewan, where he taught sedimentology and limnogeology for more than 30 years. His research focus has been on sedimentation, hydrochemistry, and environmental history of the saline alkaline lakes of the Kenya Rift Valley, and hydrothermal spring deposits in Kenya and New Zealand.

Bernie Owen has taught a variety of geology and physical geography subjects in both Malawi and Hong Kong. He is currently emeritus professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University and continues his research into palaeoenvironments, sedimentology, geochemistry and micropalaeontology in lake and spring settings.


Publication Date: 12 September 2023
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Imprint: Springer
ISBN-13: 9783642250545
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 977

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