Katberg 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
Katberg Fm:
LITHOLOGY = Sandstones dominated by upper flow regime plane beds with heavy mineral laminations. Mud pebble and glaubule conglomerate lenses are common. Large brown weathering spherical calcareous concretions of early diagenetic origin are characteristic of the sandstones throughout the formation.
CALIBRATION = 20% up in the Scythian.
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 = Sandstones dominated by upper flow regime plane beds with heavy mineral laminations. Mud pebble and glaubule conglomerate lenses are common. Large brown weathering spherical calcareous concretions of early diagenetic origin are characteristic of the sandstones throughout the formation.
CALIBRATION = 20% up in the Scythian.
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:
Sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Induan
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.51
Beginning date (Ma):
250.86
Ending stage:
Olenekian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.67
Ending date (Ma):
247.74
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 25 lat: -30
Compiler: