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Olduvai Gorge
The geoheritage of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: providing geological answers to human origin questions Available to Purchase
Abstract While Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, is most famous for its impressive and formative record of early human technology, Pleistocene fauna and hominin fossils, its geological record is equally important. At Olduvai, palaeoanthropologically significant sites are often preserved in primary context (not redeposited), and they can be contextualized within the palaeoenvironments in which the hominins lived. This has provided an exceptional opportunity to assess not only hominin evolutionary changes over time, but also to understand their adaptive behaviour including toolmaking, foraging and sociality. Abundant volcanic material from the nearby Ngorongoro Volcanic Highlands, interspersed within and between archaeology-bearing deposits, made Olduvai a target for some of the earliest applications of radiometric dating using the K/Ar system. Ultimately, the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating system has produced ages with exceptional precision. Early radiometric dating at Olduvai helped establish the antiquity of the hominin lineage, and early palaeomagnetic studies (and the ‘Olduvai event,’ the longest normal subchron within the reversed Matuyama Chron) were critical in establishing the importance of Olduvai in the field of geochronology. More recently, high-resolution palaeoclimate studies of the palaeolake that once occupied the Olduvai Basin have helped to reconstruct the palaeoenvironments encountered by hominin species. Over a century of geological research has secured Olduvai's status as an important site for geoheritage.
Paleolakes of Eastern Africa: Zeolites, Clay Minerals, and Climate Available to Purchase
The Dawn of Humanity: What Can Paleoanthropologists and Geoscientists Learn from One Another? Available to Purchase
Using Radiometric Dating, Magnetostratigraphy, and Tephrostratigraphy to Calibrate Rates of Hominin Evolution in the East African Rift Available to Purchase
Wave-equation dispersion inversion of Love waves Available to Purchase
Whole-rock geochemistry tracks precessional control of Pleistocene lake salinity at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: A record of authigenic clays Available to Purchase
Opportunities and pitfalls in surface-wave interpretation Available to Purchase
PALEOECOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MALACOFAUNA, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA Available to Purchase
Authigenic clay minerals in lacustrine mudstones Available to Purchase
Substantial amounts of authigenic clay minerals can accumulate in terrestrial mudstones where the following conditions are met: surface or pore waters are alkaline, aqueous silica activity is high, at least some dissolved magnesium (Mg) is present, and detrital input is relatively low. Availability of Al- or Fe-rich detrital clays likely leads to Mg-rich smectite formation, whereas sepiolite or kerolite is favored in environments with no detrital substrates. Surface waters of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, provide a good example of alteration of incoming detrital clay minerals into authigenic sediments with strong partitioning of Mg into silicate rather than carbonate phases. Quaternary deposits of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the Olorgesailie Basin (Kenya) provide end members for comparing processes in highly saline and alkaline settings (Olduvai) versus those in diatomaceous fresher water environments (Olorgesailie). Authigenic clays from around the world suggest that illitization and octahedral alterations are decoupled, and therefore indicative of different processes, emphasizing the need to supplement basal layer X-ray diffraction analyses with analyses of hkl reflections and geochemistry of purified phases. In general, authigenic clay minerals are more common in underfilled lake basins, usually associated with evaporitic basins with siliceous input from volcaniclastics or hydrothermal discharge.