Ash falls blighted the grasslands of Africa's Rift Valley

The question of what conditions were like in the Rift Valley of East Africa 12 million years ago (Mya) has been the subject of intense debate. Now new research just published by a team led by LMU paleontologist Professor Bettina Reichenbacher strongly suggest that extensive grassland habitats were already established in the region by that time. The study's findings appear in the Geological Magazine, one of the most respected journals in the Earth Sciences.