PAGES Kenya

Welcome to PAGES Kenya

Kenya is a country with diverse geology, physiography, ecosystems and climate, whose present-day characteristics are closely associated with the regional tectonic evolution. This diversity offers the paleoscientist a number of natural archives for study. These archives include the following: i) Freshwater lakes (such as Lake Naivasha, Lake Victoria), ii) Saline alkaline lakes (most of the Kenya Rift lakes such as Lakes Turkana, Bogoria, and hypersaline Lake Magadi), iii) Crater lakes e.g. Sacred Lake and Lake Nkunga on Mount Kenya. iv) Proglacial lakes on Mount Kenya, v) Mires and Swamps in several parts of the country, vi) Ice on Mount Kenya, vii) Corals off the Kenya coast, viii) Riverine sediments, and others.

Lake Nakuru, Kenya