ISSN:
0016-7835
Keywords:
Key words Cape orogeny
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Karoo Basin
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Gondwanaland
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Paroxysm
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Sedimentation rates
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Geosciences
Notes:
Abstract Careful consideration of the effects of the Cape orogeny on sedimentation in the Carboniferous–Jurassic Karoo Basin provides an indirect tool for accurately dating these rocks. Fossil and radiometric data, especially when combined with sedimentological and structural information, yield partly overlapping age brackets which can be used to correlate the successive tectonic pulses with specific depositional events. Application of these principles to associated basins in Gondwanaland can provide a firm foundation for more dependable stratigraphic correlation on a global scale. The exercise also suggests that a number of widely held opinions on the age of certain stratigraphic units in the Karoo Supergroup may be incorrect.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00284525
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