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- Karoo_Supergroup abstract "The Karoo Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. The supergroup consists of a sequence of units, mostly of nonmarine origin, deposited between the Late Carboniferous and Early Jurassic, a period of about 120 million years.In southern Africa, rocks of the Karoo Supergroup cover almost two thirds of the present land surface, including all of Lesotho, almost the whole of Free State, and large parts of the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces of South Africa. Karoo supergroup outcrops are also found in Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, as well as on other continents that were part of Gondwana. The basins in which it was deposited formed during the formation and breakup of Pangea. The type area of the Karoo Supergroup is the Great Karoo in South Africa, where the most extensive outcrops of the sequence are exposed. Its strata, mostly shales and sandstones, record an almost continuous sequence of marine glacial to terrestrial deposition from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Jurassic. These accumulated in a retroarc foreland basin called the "main Karoo" Basin. This basin was formed by the subduction and orogenesis along the southern border of what eventually became Southern Africa, in southern Gondwana. Its sediments attain a maximum cumulative thickness of 12 km, with the overlying basaltic lavas (the Drakensberg Group) at least 1.4 km thick.Fossils include plants (both macro-fossils and pollen), rare insects and fish, common and diverse tetrapods (mostly therapsid reptiles, temnospondyl amphibians, and in the upper strata dinosaurs), and ichnofossils. Their biostratigraphy has been used as the international standard for global correlation of Permian to Jurassic nonmarine strata.".
- Karoo_Supergroup thumbnail Earth's_geolological_timeline.gif?width=300.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageExternalLink PonMostLR2005.pdf.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageExternalLink sukacheva_etal_color_2007_AfrInv_PermomeropeLopingSAfr_LR.pdf.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageID "4644998".
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageRevisionID "603889955".
- Karoo_Supergroup hasPhotoCollection Karoo_Supergroup.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Angola.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Botswana.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Kenya.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Lesotho.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Madagascar.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Mozambique.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Namibia.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_South_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Swaziland.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Tanzania.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Zambia.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_Zimbabwe.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Geology_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Karoo.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Mesozoic_geologic_formations.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Paleontological_sites_of_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Paleozoic_geologic_formations.
- Karoo_Supergroup subject Category:Stratigraphy_of_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup type GeographicalArea108574314.
- Karoo_Supergroup type Location100027167.
- Karoo_Supergroup type Object100002684.
- Karoo_Supergroup type PaleontologicalSitesOfAfrica.
- Karoo_Supergroup type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Karoo_Supergroup type Region108630985.
- Karoo_Supergroup type Site108651247.
- Karoo_Supergroup type Tract108673395.
- Karoo_Supergroup type YagoGeoEntity.
- Karoo_Supergroup type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Karoo_Supergroup type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Karoo_Supergroup comment "The Karoo Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.".
- Karoo_Supergroup label "Karoo Supergroup".
- Karoo_Supergroup label "Karoo-Supergruppe".
- Karoo_Supergroup label "Karoosupergroep".
- Karoo_Supergroup label "カルー超層群".
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs Karoo-Supergruppe.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs カルー超層群.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs Karoosupergroep.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs m.0cf78m.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs Q915119.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs Q915119.
- Karoo_Supergroup sameAs Karoo_Supergroup.
- Karoo_Supergroup wasDerivedFrom Karoo_Supergroup?oldid=603889955.
- Karoo_Supergroup depiction Earth's_geolological_timeline.gif.
- Karoo_Supergroup isPrimaryTopicOf Karoo_Supergroup.