Whale Fossil in Kenya Sets Timing, Elevation of Uplift (IMAGE)

Southern Methodist University

Whale Fossil in Kenya Sets Timing, Elevation of Uplift

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A 17 million-year-old whale fossil stranded far inland in Kenya now sheds light on the timing and starting elevation of East Africa's puzzling tectonic uplift, says paleontologist Louis Jacobs, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, who rediscovered the fossil.

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