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Johannesburg Sub Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Gr
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Johannesburg Sub Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Gr base reconstruction

Johannesburg Sub Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Gr


Period: 

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Southern Africa

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt

Lithology and Thickness

Johannesburg Sub Gr:
LITHOLOGY = Booysens Fm of Johannesburg Subgroup. Claystone.
CALIBRATION = Arbitrarily assigned 5/6th up the Johannesburg Subgroup.
REFERENCE = Walraven, F., Armstrong, R.A., and Kruger, F.J., A chronostratigraphic framework for the north-central Kaapvaal craton, the Bushveld Complex and the Vredefort structure, Tectonophysics, 171 (1990), 23-48

Lithology Pattern: 
Claystone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Mesoarchean

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.86

    Beginning date (Ma): 
2,857.00

    Ending stage: 
Mesoarchean

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.96

    Ending date (Ma):  
2,816.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 25 lat: -30

Compiler: