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Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Impact
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Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Impact base reconstruction

Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Impact


Period: 
Orosirian

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Southern Africa

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt

Lithology and Thickness

IMPACT:
LITHOLOGY = Vredefort impact: The largest recorded impact in the world since the Late Heavy Bombardment. Second oldest known recorded impact.
CALIBRATION = Give it 10 million years for display purposes.
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: 
CS_dark_magenta

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Orosirian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.19

    Beginning date (Ma): 
2,002.00

    Ending stage: 
Orosirian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.6

    Ending date (Ma):  
1,900.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 25 lat: -30

Compiler: