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FOR the past five years, Plio–Pleistocene sediments cropping out near the north-eastern shore of Lake Rudolf have been under investigation. The lacustrine and fluviatile sediments, which extend about 30 km east of the present margin of Lake Rudolf, have yielded a wealth of Plio–Pleistocene palaeontological and archaeological specimens. Provisional accounts of the geology1,2, chronostratigraphy3,4, archaeology5,6, hominids7–11, and vertebrate fossils12 have already been published.
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HARRIS, J., WATKINS, R. New early Miocene vertebrate locality near Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Nature 252, 576–577 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252576a0
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