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Miocene Deposits in Kenya

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IN 1935 I examined the Miocene deposits of Kavirondo, Kenya, but as publication of results (already overdue) seems likely to be further delayed, I should be grateful for an opportunity to summarize the more important results with reference to mis–conceptions which have arisen about the age of the formation and its fauna.

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  1. Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 70, 128–162 (1914).

  2. "East African Plateaus and Rift Valleys", pp. 148–150 (1936).

  3. NATURE, 148, 14 (1941).

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KENT, P. Miocene Deposits in Kenya. Nature 148, 169 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148169b0

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