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. 2013 Apr 25;8(4):e62174. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062174

Figure 1. Location of Kanjera along the modern shoreline of Lake Victoria, East Africa.

Figure 1

(A) Kanjera lies to the immediate northeast of Homa Mountain, a volcanic complex active from the middle Miocene to the Pleistocene. The Winam Gulf fills the western end of the Nyanza Rift, an E-W graben with origins in the early Miocene. (B) Beds KS-1 through KS-3 of the Kanjera Formation (Southern Member) sample floodplain and low-aspect channel contexts originally deposited between the mountain and the nearby shores of a shallow lake [49]. Satellite imagery from USGS and NASA.