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DURING the past 10 yr information has accumulated pointing to a late Pleistocene/early Holocene lacustrine period in East Africa and the Sudan Zone. On a visit to Ethiopia in January and February 1970 we made a reconnaissance study of the evidence for high lake levels of about this age in the rift valley south of Addis Ababa.
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GROVE, A., GOUDIE, A. Late Quaternary Lake Levels in the Rift Valley of Southern Ethiopia and Elsewhere in Tropical Africa. Nature 234, 403–405 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234403a0
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