Lake Turkana (English Wikipedia)

The Internet hosts a number of bird sites giving scientific names, data and photographs of birds found around the lake: The Sibiloi National Park Archived 29 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the Kenya Birds Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the African Bird Image Database Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, the BirdLife International site, and many others.

birdquest.net

The Internet hosts a number of bird sites giving scientific names, data and photographs of birds found around the lake: The Sibiloi National Park Archived 29 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the Kenya Birds Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the African Bird Image Database Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, the BirdLife International site, and many others.

bradshawfoundation.com

Hogenboom, Melissa (9 December 2015). "The Importance of Lake Turkana".

britannica.com

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia (21 January 2016). "Lake Turkana remains". {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)

cam.ac.uk

repository.cam.ac.uk

Lahr, M. Mirazón; Rivera, F.; Power, R. K.; Mounier, A.; Copsey, B.; Crivellaro, F.; Edung, J. E.; Fernandez, J. M. Maillo; Kiarie, C. (2016). "Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 529 (7586): 394–398. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..394L. doi:10.1038/nature16477. PMID 26791728. S2CID 4462435.

cambridge.org

McDougall, Ian; Watkins, Ronald T. (January 2006). "Geochronology of the Nabwal Hills: a record of earliest magmatism in the northern Kenyan Rift Valley". Geological Magazine. 143 (1): 25–39. Bibcode:2006GeoM..143...25M. doi:10.1017/S0016756805001184. ISSN 1469-5081.
Lynch, B. M.; Robbins, L. H. (1 July 1979). "Cushitic and Nilotic Prehistory: New Archaeological Evidence from North-West Kenya". The Journal of African History. 20 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1017/S0021853700017333. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 162787847.

carleton.edu

people.carleton.edu

See Mineral chemistry of Turkana basalts and implications for basin development, Karla Knudson, Louise Miltich, Nick Swanson-Hysell. The article is highly technical. Look for the summaries.

columbia.edu

academiccommons.columbia.edu

Costa, Kassandra; Russell, James; Konecky, Bronwen; Lamb, Henry (1 January 2014). "Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia". Quaternary Science Reviews. 83: 58–67. Bibcode:2014QSRv...83...58C. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.031. hdl:2160/42513.

doi.org

Gregory, J. W. (1894), "Contributions to the Physical Geography of British East Africa", The Geographical Journal, 4 (4): 289–315, Bibcode:1894GeogJ...4..289G, doi:10.2307/1773534, JSTOR 1773534
Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; Bour, R.; Fritz, U.; Georges, A.; Shaffer, H.B.; van Dijk, P.P.; et al. (Turtle Taxonomy Working Group) (2017). Rhodin, A.G.J.; Iverson, J.B.; van Dijk, P.P.; Saumure, R.A.; Buhlmann, K.A.; Pritchard, P.C.H.; Mittermeier, R.A. (eds.). Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status. Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Vol. 7 (8 ed.). pp. 1–292. doi:10.3854/crm.7.checklist.atlas.v8.2017. ISBN 9781532350269. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
FURMAN, TANYA; KALETA, KELLY M.; BRYCE, JULIA G.; HANAN, BARRY B. (21 March 2006). "Tertiary Mafic Lavas of Turkana, Kenya: Constraints on East African Plume Structure and the Occurrence of High-μ Volcanism in Africa". Journal of Petrology. 47 (6): 1221–1244. doi:10.1093/petrology/egl009. ISSN 1460-2415.
McDougall, Ian; Watkins, Ronald T. (January 2006). "Geochronology of the Nabwal Hills: a record of earliest magmatism in the northern Kenyan Rift Valley". Geological Magazine. 143 (1): 25–39. Bibcode:2006GeoM..143...25M. doi:10.1017/S0016756805001184. ISSN 1469-5081.
McDougall, Ian; Brown, Francis H. (January 2006). "Precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya". Journal of the Geological Society. 163 (1): 205–220. Bibcode:2006JGSoc.163..205M. doi:10.1144/0016-764904-166. ISSN 0016-7649.
Bloszies, C.; Forman, S. L.; Wright, D. K. (1 September 2015). "Water level history for Lake Turkana, Kenya in the past 15,000 years and a variable transition from the African Humid Period to Holocene aridity". Global and Planetary Change. 132: 64–76. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.06.006.
Costa, Kassandra; Russell, James; Konecky, Bronwen; Lamb, Henry (1 January 2014). "Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia". Quaternary Science Reviews. 83: 58–67. Bibcode:2014QSRv...83...58C. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.031. hdl:2160/42513.
Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.; Huang, Yongsong; Verschuren, Dirk (1 April 2011). "Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (7–8): 798–807. Bibcode:2011QSRv...30..798T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.017.
Junginger, Annett; Roller, Sybille; Olaka, Lydia A.; Trauth, Martin H. (15 February 2014). "The effects of solar irradiation changes on the migration of the Congo Air Boundary and water levels of paleo-Lake Suguta, Northern Kenya Rift, during the African Humid Period (15–5 ka BP)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 396: 1–16. Bibcode:2014PPP...396....1J. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.007.
Lahr, M. Mirazón; Rivera, F.; Power, R. K.; Mounier, A.; Copsey, B.; Crivellaro, F.; Edung, J. E.; Fernandez, J. M. Maillo; Kiarie, C. (2016). "Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 529 (7586): 394–398. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..394L. doi:10.1038/nature16477. PMID 26791728. S2CID 4462435.
Lynch, B. M.; Robbins, L. H. (1 July 1979). "Cushitic and Nilotic Prehistory: New Archaeological Evidence from North-West Kenya". The Journal of African History. 20 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1017/S0021853700017333. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 162787847.
Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Kiura, Purity; Bloszies, Christopher; Beyin, Amanuel (27 June 2015). "Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya". African Archaeological Review. 32 (2): 335–367. doi:10.1007/s10437-015-9185-8. ISSN 0263-0338.
Grillo, Katherine M.; Hildebrand, Elisabeth A. (1 June 2013). "The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c. 5000–4000 BP". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 48 (2): 193–217. doi:10.1080/0067270X.2013.789188. ISSN 0067-270X. S2CID 162193899.
McCabe, Terrance (1990). "Success and Failure: The Breakdown of Traditional Drought Coping Institutions Among the Pastoral Turkana of Kenya". African and Asian Studies. 25 (3): 146–160. doi:10.1177/002190969002500302. S2CID 220931072. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
MONTCLOS, M.-A. P. D.; KAGWANJA, P. M. (1 June 2000). "Refugee Camps or Cities? The Socio-economic Dynamics of the Dadaab and Kakuma Camps in Northern Kenya". Journal of Refugee Studies. 13 (2): 205–222. doi:10.1093/jrs/13.2.205. ISSN 0951-6328. S2CID 145079117.

environment.go.ke

Tobiko, Keriako (2021). "Rising Water Levels in Kenya's Rift Valley Lakes, Turkwel Gorge Dam and Lake Victoria" (PDF). Kenya Government and UNDP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

feow.org

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (2008). Lake Turkana. Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2 May 2011

fsu.edu

law.fsu.edu

The boundary between Ethiopia and Kenya has been a contentious matter. A brief consideration of the topic can be found in the State Department document, Ethiopia – Kenya Boundary Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine

handle.net

hdl.handle.net

Costa, Kassandra; Russell, James; Konecky, Bronwen; Lamb, Henry (1 January 2014). "Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia". Quaternary Science Reviews. 83: 58–67. Bibcode:2014QSRv...83...58C. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.031. hdl:2160/42513.

harvard.edu

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Gregory, J. W. (1894), "Contributions to the Physical Geography of British East Africa", The Geographical Journal, 4 (4): 289–315, Bibcode:1894GeogJ...4..289G, doi:10.2307/1773534, JSTOR 1773534
McDougall, Ian; Watkins, Ronald T. (January 2006). "Geochronology of the Nabwal Hills: a record of earliest magmatism in the northern Kenyan Rift Valley". Geological Magazine. 143 (1): 25–39. Bibcode:2006GeoM..143...25M. doi:10.1017/S0016756805001184. ISSN 1469-5081.
McDougall, Ian; Brown, Francis H. (January 2006). "Precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya". Journal of the Geological Society. 163 (1): 205–220. Bibcode:2006JGSoc.163..205M. doi:10.1144/0016-764904-166. ISSN 0016-7649.
Costa, Kassandra; Russell, James; Konecky, Bronwen; Lamb, Henry (1 January 2014). "Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia". Quaternary Science Reviews. 83: 58–67. Bibcode:2014QSRv...83...58C. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.031. hdl:2160/42513.
Tierney, Jessica E.; Russell, James M.; Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S.; Huang, Yongsong; Verschuren, Dirk (1 April 2011). "Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (7–8): 798–807. Bibcode:2011QSRv...30..798T. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.017.
Junginger, Annett; Roller, Sybille; Olaka, Lydia A.; Trauth, Martin H. (15 February 2014). "The effects of solar irradiation changes on the migration of the Congo Air Boundary and water levels of paleo-Lake Suguta, Northern Kenya Rift, during the African Humid Period (15–5 ka BP)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 396: 1–16. Bibcode:2014PPP...396....1J. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.007.
Lahr, M. Mirazón; Rivera, F.; Power, R. K.; Mounier, A.; Copsey, B.; Crivellaro, F.; Edung, J. E.; Fernandez, J. M. Maillo; Kiarie, C. (2016). "Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 529 (7586): 394–398. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..394L. doi:10.1038/nature16477. PMID 26791728. S2CID 4462435.

ilec.or.jp

Historic lake levels are graphed in the World Lakes Database Archived 18 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
The World Lakes Database Archived 18 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine includes mention of the lake plankton, some of which are responsible for its turquoise colour.

jstor.org

Gregory, J. W. (1894), "Contributions to the Physical Geography of British East Africa", The Geographical Journal, 4 (4): 289–315, Bibcode:1894GeogJ...4..289G, doi:10.2307/1773534, JSTOR 1773534

kenya-and-beyond.com

"Lake Turkana". www.kenya-and-beyond.com. 21 September 2016. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

kenyabirds.org.uk

The Internet hosts a number of bird sites giving scientific names, data and photographs of birds found around the lake: The Sibiloi National Park Archived 29 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the Kenya Birds Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the African Bird Image Database Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, the BirdLife International site, and many others.

kenyasafari.com

"Lake Turkana in Kenya - The Jade Sea". www.kenyasafari.com. Retrieved 25 May 2020.

ltwp.co.ke

"Home - Lake Turkana Wind Power". 26 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
"Lake Turkana Wind Project - Our journey". Retrieved 13 March 2024.

mongabay.com

"Freshwater Fish Species in Lake Turkana [East Africa]". TropicalFreshwaterFish.com. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

nationalgeographic.org

education.nationalgeographic.org

Herrero, Hannah (20 May 2022). "Discoveries at Lake Turkana".

nih.gov

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lahr, M. Mirazón; Rivera, F.; Power, R. K.; Mounier, A.; Copsey, B.; Crivellaro, F.; Edung, J. E.; Fernandez, J. M. Maillo; Kiarie, C. (2016). "Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 529 (7586): 394–398. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..394L. doi:10.1038/nature16477. PMID 26791728. S2CID 4462435.

nytimes.com

archive.nytimes.com

Browne, Pete (16 March 2010). "Africa's Largest Wind Project Advances". Green Blog. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

researchgate.net

McCabe, Terrance (1990). "Success and Failure: The Breakdown of Traditional Drought Coping Institutions Among the Pastoral Turkana of Kenya". African and Asian Studies. 25 (3): 146–160. doi:10.1177/002190969002500302. S2CID 220931072. Retrieved 7 March 2017.

scientificamerican.com

Bush, Eliot (27 June 2020). "The Meaning of Time in the Place Where Humanity's Earliest Ancestors Arose". Scientific American.

semanticscholar.org

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Lahr, M. Mirazón; Rivera, F.; Power, R. K.; Mounier, A.; Copsey, B.; Crivellaro, F.; Edung, J. E.; Fernandez, J. M. Maillo; Kiarie, C. (2016). "Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya". Nature. 529 (7586): 394–398. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..394L. doi:10.1038/nature16477. PMID 26791728. S2CID 4462435.
Lynch, B. M.; Robbins, L. H. (1 July 1979). "Cushitic and Nilotic Prehistory: New Archaeological Evidence from North-West Kenya". The Journal of African History. 20 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1017/S0021853700017333. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 162787847.
Grillo, Katherine M.; Hildebrand, Elisabeth A. (1 June 2013). "The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c. 5000–4000 BP". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 48 (2): 193–217. doi:10.1080/0067270X.2013.789188. ISSN 0067-270X. S2CID 162193899.
McCabe, Terrance (1990). "Success and Failure: The Breakdown of Traditional Drought Coping Institutions Among the Pastoral Turkana of Kenya". African and Asian Studies. 25 (3): 146–160. doi:10.1177/002190969002500302. S2CID 220931072. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
MONTCLOS, M.-A. P. D.; KAGWANJA, P. M. (1 June 2000). "Refugee Camps or Cities? The Socio-economic Dynamics of the Dadaab and Kakuma Camps in Northern Kenya". Journal of Refugee Studies. 13 (2): 205–222. doi:10.1093/jrs/13.2.205. ISSN 0951-6328. S2CID 145079117.

sibiloi.com

The Internet hosts a number of bird sites giving scientific names, data and photographs of birds found around the lake: The Sibiloi National Park Archived 29 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the Kenya Birds Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the African Bird Image Database Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, the BirdLife International site, and many others.

theguardian.com

Baraka, Carey (17 March 2022). "A drowning world: Kenya's quiet slide underwater". the Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

thenewhumanitarian.org

Moran, B. (23 May 2017). "A way of life under threat in Kenya as Lake Turkana shrinks". The New Humanitarian. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

unicef.org

Serem, B. (29 November 2012). "For villages in Turkana, Kenya, a new initiative that brings clean water to the community is life-changing". UNICEF. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.

univ.trieste.it

sslmit.univ.trieste.it

A summary of the European discovery as well as Teleki's map and some Turkana tribe legends are stated in a University of Trieste Archived 6 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine document online.

visitkenya.com

A good introduction is stated in the Regions of Kenya Archived 13 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine site.

web.archive.org

The boundary between Ethiopia and Kenya has been a contentious matter. A brief consideration of the topic can be found in the State Department document, Ethiopia – Kenya Boundary Archived 18 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Serem, B. (29 November 2012). "For villages in Turkana, Kenya, a new initiative that brings clean water to the community is life-changing". UNICEF. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
Historic lake levels are graphed in the World Lakes Database Archived 18 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
A summary of the European discovery as well as Teleki's map and some Turkana tribe legends are stated in a University of Trieste Archived 6 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine document online.
The World Lakes Database Archived 18 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine includes mention of the lake plankton, some of which are responsible for its turquoise colour.
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (2008). Lake Turkana. Archived 5 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2 May 2011
The Internet hosts a number of bird sites giving scientific names, data and photographs of birds found around the lake: The Sibiloi National Park Archived 29 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the Kenya Birds Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine site, the African Bird Image Database Archived 22 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, the BirdLife International site, and many others.
"Lake Turkana". www.kenya-and-beyond.com. 21 September 2016. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
A good introduction is stated in the Regions of Kenya Archived 13 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine site.
Tobiko, Keriako (2021). "Rising Water Levels in Kenya's Rift Valley Lakes, Turkwel Gorge Dam and Lake Victoria" (PDF). Kenya Government and UNDP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

worldcat.org

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FURMAN, TANYA; KALETA, KELLY M.; BRYCE, JULIA G.; HANAN, BARRY B. (21 March 2006). "Tertiary Mafic Lavas of Turkana, Kenya: Constraints on East African Plume Structure and the Occurrence of High-μ Volcanism in Africa". Journal of Petrology. 47 (6): 1221–1244. doi:10.1093/petrology/egl009. ISSN 1460-2415.
McDougall, Ian; Watkins, Ronald T. (January 2006). "Geochronology of the Nabwal Hills: a record of earliest magmatism in the northern Kenyan Rift Valley". Geological Magazine. 143 (1): 25–39. Bibcode:2006GeoM..143...25M. doi:10.1017/S0016756805001184. ISSN 1469-5081.
McDougall, Ian; Brown, Francis H. (January 2006). "Precise ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya". Journal of the Geological Society. 163 (1): 205–220. Bibcode:2006JGSoc.163..205M. doi:10.1144/0016-764904-166. ISSN 0016-7649.
Lynch, B. M.; Robbins, L. H. (1 July 1979). "Cushitic and Nilotic Prehistory: New Archaeological Evidence from North-West Kenya". The Journal of African History. 20 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1017/S0021853700017333. ISSN 1469-5138. S2CID 162787847.
Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Kiura, Purity; Bloszies, Christopher; Beyin, Amanuel (27 June 2015). "Lakeside View: Sociocultural Responses to Changing Water Levels of Lake Turkana, Kenya". African Archaeological Review. 32 (2): 335–367. doi:10.1007/s10437-015-9185-8. ISSN 0263-0338.
Grillo, Katherine M.; Hildebrand, Elisabeth A. (1 June 2013). "The context of early megalithic architecture in eastern Africa: the Turkana Basin c. 5000–4000 BP". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 48 (2): 193–217. doi:10.1080/0067270X.2013.789188. ISSN 0067-270X. S2CID 162193899.
MONTCLOS, M.-A. P. D.; KAGWANJA, P. M. (1 June 2000). "Refugee Camps or Cities? The Socio-economic Dynamics of the Dadaab and Kakuma Camps in Northern Kenya". Journal of Refugee Studies. 13 (2): 205–222. doi:10.1093/jrs/13.2.205. ISSN 0951-6328. S2CID 145079117.