Large endorheic basin mainly in Kenya and Ethiopia
For the Lake, see Lake Turkana.
An Acacia tree in the Kokiselei river, northern Kenya
The greater Turkana Basin in East Africa (mainly northwestern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, smaller parts of eastern Uganda and southeastern South Sudan) determines a large endorheic basin, a drainage basin with no outflow centered around the north-southwards directed Gregory Rift system in Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The deepest point of the basin is the endorheic Lake Turkana, a brackish soda lake with a very high ecological productivity in the Gregory Rift.
A narrower definition for the term Turkana Basin is also in widespread use and means Lake Turkana and its environment within the confines of the Gregory Rift in Kenya and Ethiopia. This includes the lower Omo River valley in Ethiopia. The Basin in the narrower definition is a site of geological subsidence containing one of the most continuous and temporally well controlled fossil records of the Plio-Pleistocene[1][2] with some fossils as old as the Cretaceous.[3] Among the Basin's critical fossiliferous sites are Lothagam, Allia Bay, and Koobi Fora.
^Feibel, C., 2011, "A Geological History of the Turkana Basin." Evolutionary Anthropology.
^McDougall, I.; Brown, F. H.; Vasconcelos, P. M.; Cohen, B. E.; Thiede, D. S.; Buchanan, M. J. (2012). "New single crystal 40Ar/39Ar ages improve time scale for deposition of the Omo Group, Omo-Turkana Basin, East Africa". Journal of the Geological Society. 169 (2): 213–226. Bibcode:2012JGSoc.169..213M. doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-188. S2CID 128606182.
^Tiercilin J.-J., Potdevin J.-L., Morley C.K., Talbot M.R., Bellon H., Rio A., Le Gall B. & Vétel W. (2004). "Hydrocarbon potential of the Meso-Cenozoic Turkana Depression, northern Kenya. I. Reservoirs: depositional environments, diagenetic characteristics, and source rock–reservoir relationships" (PDF). Marine and Petroleum Geology. 21: 41–62. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2003.11.007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
The greater TurkanaBasin in East Africa (mainly northwestern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, smaller parts of eastern Uganda and southeastern South Sudan)...
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care. In May 2012, Paul Simon performed at a benefit dinner for the TurkanaBasin Institute in New York City, raising more than $2 million for Richard...
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Gutiérrez, Mercedes; Fleagle, John G. (2011). "Faunal Change in the TurkanaBasin during the Late Oligocene and Miocene". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues...
most of the TurkanaBasin in Kenya, east Africa. Brown introduced single-crystal argon-argon and potassium-argon dating into the TurkanaBasin, resolving...
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C.S. (1993). "Freshwater stingrays from the Plio-Pleistocene of the TurkanaBasin, Kenya and Ethiopia". Lethaia. 26 (4): 359–366. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931...
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