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Waterberg-Southpansberg Gr

Waterberg-Southpansberg Gr


Period: 
Orosirian, Statherian, Calymmian, Ectasian, Stenian

Age Interval: 
late Paleoproterozoic through Mesoproterozoic


Province: 
Karoo Basin

Type Locality and Naming

Upward succession of the Nylstroom Sub Gr, Matlabas Sub Gr and Kransberg Sub Gr

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness


Lithology Pattern: 


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Vredefort IMPACT Fm (unconformable)

Upper contact

Koras Gr (conformable)

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

ca 1900-ish to 1090 Ma, no control on ages on diagram

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Orosirian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.6

    Beginning date (Ma): 
1,900.00

    Ending stage: 
Stenian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.55

    Ending date (Ma):  
1,090.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from 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.