Table Mountain Gr
Period:
Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian
Age Interval:
Early Ordovician - Early Devonian
Province:
Karoo Basin
Type Locality and Naming
Consists of upward succession of the Piekeniersidoof Fm (sandstone), Graafwater Fm (clayey sandstone), Peninsula Fm (sandstone), Cedarberg Fm (claystone) and Nardouw Fm (sandstone)
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Lithology Pattern:
Clayey sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Klipeuwel Fm (conformable)
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Tremadocian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.5
Beginning date (Ma):
481.96
Ending stage:
Emsian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.24
Ending date (Ma):
406.62
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from Tankard, A., "Tectonic evolution of the Cape and Karoo basins of South Africa", Marine and Petroleum Geology 26 (2009) 1379–1412