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Miocene Beds of the East African Coast1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. E. Eames  and
P. E. Kent
F. E. Eames
Affiliation:
c℅o British Petrolium Co., Ltd., London.
P. E. Kent
Affiliation:
c℅o British Petrolium Co., Ltd., London.
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Abstract

New discoveries of marine Lower Miocene beds on the Tanganyika and Kenya coasts and on the adjacent larger islands are briefly described, and the palaeontological evidence establishing their age outlined. Previous palaeontological evidence has had to be reassessed, a considerable number of supposed Pliocene index fossils having been found to occur in the Lower Miocene. The “ Chlamys werthi Beds ” are shown to include strata of both Lower Miocene and Pliocene ages.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 92 , Issue 4 , August 1955 , pp. 338 - 344
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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Published by permission of the Chairmen and Directors of The British Petroleum Company Limited and of the Shell Petroleum Company, Limited.

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