Thursday, 19 March 2015

Ancient whale fossil provides exact date for East Africa's puzzling uplift

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Ancient whale fossil provides exact date for East Africa's puzzling uplift
Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 18, 2015 - Uplift associated with the Great Rift Valley of East Africa and the environmental changes it produced have puzzled scientists for decades because the timing and starting elevation have been poorly constrained. Now paleontologists have tapped a fossil from the most precisely dated beaked whale in the world - and the only stranded whale ever found so far inland on the African continent - to ... more


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