 Between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago the lake progressively dried up; today only the small Lake Logipi occupies the area.Lake Suguta lies in the Kenya Rift, which is part of the East African Rift.Starting with the Miocene, plate tectonics resulted in the pulling apart of the crust and the formation of the rift valley along with volcanoes; these include The Barrier volcano which starting from 1.3 million years ago and definitively from 0.2-0.1 million years ago separates Lake Suguta from Lake Turkana farther north.