Professor Ken MacLeod's Research
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Ken MacLeod traveled to the Kilwa Peninsula in Fall 2003 to
core Cretaceous and Tertiary deposits. The sections contain spectacularly preserved foraminifera and the Tanzanian
government is interested petroleum exploration.
Leopard mandible found ~10 m from one drill site.
Ken MacLeod (MU) and Dr. Joyce Singano (Tanzanian
Petroleum Development Company) at the ruins of an
early 20th century outpost of the German colonial empire
in the town of Kilwa Kivinge. The economic peak of the
region was in the 13th-14th centuries when it was a major
trading center for the Sultanate of Oman.
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