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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 Earths_geolological_timeline.svgwidth=300.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageExternalLink PonMostLR2005.pdf.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageExternalLink sukacheva_etal_color_2007_AfrInv_PermomeropeLopingSAfr_LR.pdf.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageID "4644998".
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageLength "30070".
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageOutDegree "177".
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageRevisionID "680663552".
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink African_Invertebrates.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Afrikaans.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Angwa_Sandstone_Formation.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Anomodont.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Anomodonts.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Antarctica.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Arabia.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Arabian_Peninsula.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Back-arc_region.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Barkly_West.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Beaufort_Group.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Biostratigraphy.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Black_Sea.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Fold_Belt.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Carboniferous.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Angola.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Botswana.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Kenya.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Lesotho.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Madagascar.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Mozambique.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Namibia.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_South_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Swaziland.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Tanzania.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Zambia.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Zimbabwe.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jurassic_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Karoo.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mesozoic_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mesozoic_geologic_formations.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleontological_sites_of_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleozoic_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Paleozoic_geologic_formations.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Category:Stratigraphy_of_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Cephalopod.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Clarens_Formation.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Coal_in_South_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Continental_drift.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Cynodont.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Diabase.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Diamictite.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dike_(geology).
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dinocephalia.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dinocephalians.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dinosaur.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dinosaurs.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dolerite.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Drakensberg.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Dwyka_Group.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Early_Jurassic.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Cape.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Ecca_Group.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Embryo.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Enon_Formation.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Escarpment_Grit.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Fish.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Foreland_basin.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Forest_Sandstone_Formation.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Free_State_(province).
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Glacial_period.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Glaciation.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Glacier.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Glaciers.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Glossopteris.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Golden_Gate_Highlands_National_Park.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Gondwana.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Great_Escarpment,_Southern_Africa.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Group_(stratigraphy).
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Highveld.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Himalayas.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Iceberg.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Icebergs.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Ichnofossil.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Insect.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Jurassic.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Karoo.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Karoo_Ice_Age.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink KwaZulu-Natal.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink KwaZulu-Natal_Province.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink KwaZulu–Natal.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Lebombo_Mountains.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Lesotho.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Lower_Karoo_Group.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Lystrosaurus.
- Karoo_Supergroup wikiPageWikiLink Madagascar.