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Elliot Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Formation
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Elliot Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Fm base reconstruction

Elliot Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Southern Africa

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt

Lithology and Thickness

Elliot Fm:
LITHOLOGY = Forms a wedge-shaped deposit, dominated by upward-fining cycles of various sandstone grades and mudrocks.
CALIBRATION = 59% up in the Norian.
REFERENCE = Fig. 2. from Catuneanu, O., et al.,"The Karoo basins of south-central Africa", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005), 211-254

Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Norian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.59

    Beginning date (Ma): 
214.58

    Ending stage: 
Sinemurian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.89

    Ending date (Ma):  
193.63

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 25 lat: -30

Compiler: