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Coring activities in the Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia, have been successfully completed
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- 08 December 2014
The coring activities of the Chew Bahir Project, part of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) and associated with the CRC 806 have been successfully accomplished end of November... -
Oldest sediments from the source region of 'Homo sapiens sapiens'
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- 19 November 2014
A 40 m long sediment core from Chew Bahir/southern Ethiopia was already recovered in April 2014 funded exclusively by the CRC 806. Since the core opening the material is processed in the lab... -
All's well that ends well
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- 01 April 2014
Five days ago, the rainy season started in Ethiopia and the ecosystems in the rift-valley began to bloom again. Almost just in time, Frank Schäbitz and his team left the dry drilling site of the... -
Good things come to those who wait
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- 21 March 2014
Shortly after the set-back that the ICDP/HSPDP Chew Bahir drilling project will be postponed to autumn 2014, Frank Schaebitz received unexpectedly the tempting offer from Addis Geosystems Ltd. to... -
West-east coring transect at Ethiopian lakes
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- 01 February 2013
In autumn 2011, we successfully completed a west to east coring transect at lakes in different altitudes. First, we cored Lake Babogaya, one of the Debre Zeyit volcan crater lakes at 1800 m a.s.l... -
More cores and archaeological artefacts: News from the Ethiopian project team
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- 10 January 2013
In March 2012, we returned to Ethiopia with the aim of surveying for archaeological artefacts close to our lakes, to sample rock material east of Chew Bahir, and finally to core one of the Dendi... -
New cores out of Africa
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- 02 June 2011
In two field campaigns (2009 and 2010) we successfully cored and explored two lakes in southern Ethiopia: Chew Bahir and Lake Chamo.