Rukwa
Americannoun
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Chomping disaster: The flooding of Lake Rukwa in the Songwe region of Tanzania has carried crocodiles, which usually slink in deep water, toward the shore.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2021
A team led by Nancy Stevens, a palaeontologist at Ohio University in Athens, recovered a lone tooth and a jaw fragment with three teeth from a site in the Rukwa Rift Basin in southwestern Tanzania.
From Scientific American • May 16, 2013
“Before the discoveries from Rukwa, only three primate genera had been described from all of the late Oligocene, globally,” says Stevens.
From Scientific American • May 16, 2013
Both specimens, consisting of teeth and partial jaws, were found in Rukwa Rift sediments dated by several techniques, including the often used argon-argon method, to 25.2 million years ago.
From Science Magazine • May 15, 2013
Of inland river systems there are four—one draining to Victoria Nyanza, another to Tanganyika, a third to Nyasa and a fourth to Rukwa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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