page_title: Lake Suguta
section_title: Biology
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Suguta / Biology
caption_attribution_description: Български: Малкото езеро Логипи в долината Сугута, Северна Кения English: Lake Logipi in the Suguta Valley, Kenya
context_page_description: Lake Suguta is a former lake in Africa. It formed in the Suguta Valley, which is part of the East African Rift, south of Lake Turkana during the Holocene African humid period.
  The lake existed a number of times during history, most recently during the early and middle Holocene when a stronger monsoon caused increased precipitation in the basin of the lake. The lake then reached a top elevation of 577 metres above sea level, when it overflowed into the Kerio River and then into Lake Turkana. The lake possibly ultimately drained into the Nile.
  Between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago the lake progressively dried up; today only the small Lake Logipi occupies the area.
context_section_description: Bivalves, freshwater snails, ostracods, oysters, prosobranch gastropods and stromatoliths occurred in Lake Suguta.
  A Nilotic fauna has been found in fossils associated with Lake Suguta, which endorses the idea that the lake was formerly connected with Lake Turkana and the Nile.
caption: The present-day Lake Logipi
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