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 = 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: