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Koras Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Gr
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Koras Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt Gr


Period: 
Stenian

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Southern Africa

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Karoo Basin Cape Fold Belt

Lithology and Thickness

Koras Gr:
LITHOLOGY = Coarse clastics?
CALIBRATION = Age given by L.E. Kent, 1976, from quartz porphyry.
REFERENCE = Kent, L.E., & Hugo, P.J., Aspects of the Revised South African Stratigraphic Classification and a Proposal for the Chronostratigraphic Subdivision of the Precambrian, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 6, 367-377

Lithology Pattern: 
Coarse-grained sandstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Stenian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.55

    Beginning date (Ma): 
1,090.00

    Ending stage: 
Tonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.71

    Ending date (Ma):  
800.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 25 lat: -30

Compiler: