Dikika

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The Dikika region is an area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia where the hominid fossil Selam was found. Dikika is located in Mille woreda.^[1]

Dikika is part of the Hadar formation in the Afar Region, a series of sedimentary rocks deposited approximately 3.4 million years ago, and exposed by the erosive action of the Awash River.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Based on the map of the findsite printed in Alemseged, Z. et al. A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, and its geological context. J. Hum. Evol. 49 (2005), 499–514.

[edit] Further reading

• J.E. Kalb, E.B. Oswald, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge and C. Jolly, Stratigraphy of the Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar, Ethiopia, Newsletters on Stratigraphy 11 (1982), pp. 95–127.