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Eight tuffs can now be correlated between the Shungura Formation in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and the sediments in the Koobi Fora region, Kenya. Re-evaluation of the stratigraphy shows that at least 475 m of sediment was deposited in the Koobi Fora region.
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Cerling, T., Brown, F. Tuffaceous marker horizons in the Koobi Fora region and the Lower Omo Valley. Nature 299, 216–221 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/299216a0
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