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 = 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: