Lake Bogoria, Kenya: soda, hot springs and about a million flamingoes |
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| Authors: | ROBIN W RENAUT JEAN-JACQUES TIERCELIN |
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| Abstract: | Lake Bogoria is a saline, alkaline, meromictic lake in a geothermally active part of the Kenya Rift Valley. Coring of the lake floor has shown two types of sedimentation – a shallow fan–deltaic clastic zone and a deeper zone with alternating organic muds and evaporites. The organic muds formed during periods of relatively high lake level and high microbial productivity, the evaporites during more arid phases. Analyses of the cores show many environmental fluctuations during the past 30000 years, related to regional climatic changes and to local tectonic and hydrological controls. |
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