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A simplified geological map of the outcrops of Karoo Supergroup rocks in Southern Africa. The Drakensberg Group is represented by the blue key on the map. The Drakensberg Group is a geological group named after the Drakensberg mountain range where in its uppermost sections the rocks are found.
The geology of Africa is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent. The African continent rests over two main plates. The African Plate, accounting for the whole of north Africa, and the Somali Plate, which accounts for the eastern side of mid and southern Africa. [1]
Karoo National Park near Beaufort West, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The geological formations of the Beaufort Group are outcrop over approximately 145 000 km 2, attaining a total thickness of around 6000 m thick at its thickest outcrops. In the west, the lowermost Beaufort Group rocks are found east of Laingsburg and remain continuous ...
Geology of Africa (19 C, 39 P ... Landforms of Africa (34 C) Landmarks in Africa (2 C) M. Maps of Africa (3 C, 1 P) Mines ... Pages in category "Geography of Africa"
The geology of South Sudan is founded on Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks, that cover 40 percent of the country's surface and underlie other rock units. The region was affected by the Pan-African orogeny in the Neoproterozoic and extensional tectonics in the Mesozoic that deposited very thick oil-bearing sedimentary sequences in rift ...
The boundaries of the WAC are predominantly defined by a combination of geophysics and surface geology, with additional constraints by the geochemistry of the region. [1] At one time, volcanic action around the rim of the craton may have contributed to a major global warming event.
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Borg, G (1995), "Metallogenesis of Neoproterozoic basins in Namibia and Botswana" (PDF), Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 10: 109– 119 Kukulus, Matthias (2004), A quantitative approach to the evolution of the central Walvis Basin offshore NW-Namibia: structure, mass balancing, and hydrocarbon potential (PhD thesis) , Julius ...