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The Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia, contains a sedimentary sequence that is > 1 km thick, spans much of the Neogene, and contains vertebrate fossils throughout. Newly defined formations described here are older and younger than the hominid-bearing Hadar Formation. The Awash deposystem reflects deposition in an evolving triple junction.
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Kalb, J., Oswald, E., Tebedge, S. et al. Geology and stratigraphy of Neogene deposits, Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298, 17–25 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/298017a0
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