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Francis H. Brown
Dean, College of Mines and Earth Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Contact: Office: 209 WBB
Phone: (801) 581-8767
fbrown@earth.utah.edu
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Photo taken in the Turkana Basin of Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya.
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FIELD OF STUDY
Paleoanthropology & tephrostratigraphy
BACKGROUND
- B.A. - University of California, Berkeley, 1965
- Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, 1971
- Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1989–present.
- Scientific Executive Committe, L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, 1993–present.
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
My interests remain in applying geological techniques to determining the age and stratigraphy of deposits in the Turkana Basin of Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya, where I began work in 1966. In addition, I hope to transfer as much knowledge as possible to younger workers through collaboration in the field.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Brown, F. H., and Gathogo, P. N., 2002. Stratigraphic relation between Lokalalei 1A and Lokalalei 2C, Pliocene Archaeological Sites in west Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 699–702.
Haileab, B., Brown, F. H., McDougall, I., and Gathogo, P.N., 2004. Flood basalts and initiation of Pliocene deposition in the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. Geological Magazine, v. 141, 41–53.
McDougall, I., Brown, F. H., and Fleagle, J. G., 2005. Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia. Nature 433, 733–736.
Brown, F. H., and Gathogo, P. N., 2005. A comment on‘Recent tectonics in theTurkana Rift (North Kenya): an integrated approach from drainage network, satellite imagery and reflection seismic analyses’. Basin Research (2005) 17, 329–335, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00267.
Brown, F. H., Haileab, B., & McDougall, I., 2006. Sequence of tuffs between the KBS Tuff and the Chari Tuff in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 185–204.
McDougall, I., and Brown, F. H., 2006. Precise 40Ar/39Ar geochronology for the upper Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, northern Kenya. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 205–220.
Harris, J. M., M. G. Leakey, and F. H. Brown. 2006. A brief history of research at Koobi Fora, northern Kenya. Ethnohistory, 53 (1), 35–69.
Gathogo, P. N., and Brown, F. H., 2006. Stratigraphy of the Koobi Fora Formation (Pliocene and Pleistocene) in the Ileret region of northern Kenya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 45, 369–390.
