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DURING the last few months the account by Erik Nilsson of his 1932-33 expedition to East Africa has become available in Great Britain1. In the course of this, Nilsson describes the continuation of his geological work in central Kenya, and a journey northwards to Abyssinia to extend the scope of the work and obtain comparative data in the more northerly section of the Rift Valley. The results obtained were of considerable interest. High-level beaches which were found in inland drainage basins proved to correspond closely with those known in detail in Kenya, and tuffaceous lacustrine deposits closely similar to those of the Lower-Middle Pleistocene of Kenya were located. Nilsson was also able to find and map moraines and other signs of past glaciation in two regions on the mountain masses.
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KENT, P. PLEISTOCENE CLIMATES IN KENYA AND ABYSSINIA. Nature 149, 736–737 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149736a0
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