One of the earliest
paleoenvironments of the Turkana basin was the Apak flood plain of the Pliocene epoch.
It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10 % of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of
the paleoenvironments of these regions has remained limited.
I am working towards my thesis reconstructing
the paleoenvironment of a site at Olduvai Gorge.
Not exact matches
Capturing the full picture
of the mid-Pliocene's doppelganger climate requires reconstructing the whole Arctic
paleoenvironment from sparse bits
of remains.
The team was also surprised to find that reconstructions
of the environment around Lomekwi at 3.3 million years ago, from the associated animal fossils and isotopic analyses
of the site's soil, indicate the area was much more wooded than
paleoenvironments associated with later East African artifact sites from after 2.6 million years.
Olduvai Gorge: a case history in the interpretation
of hominid
paleoenvironments in East Africa.
Wayne Goodfellow, PhD (Earth Science), Ocean Evolution,
Paleoenvironments, Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, University
of Ottawa, Geological Survey
of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada