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ARCC First Fieldwork in Tanzania

Rob Marchant, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi and Rebecca Kariuki set out for the first ARCC project fieldwork in northern Tanzania in early July 2018. The fieldwork largely involved collecting lake sediment cores from Speke’s Bay in Lake Victoria. It also involved capturing leaf area index (LAI) images and surveying land use and livelihood patterns across northern Tanzania. […]

Syn-depositional processes

One possible mechanism for the creation of fine-scaled laminations in sediments: [LINK]

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