Rukwa Rift Basin
The Rukwa Rift Basin, located in southwestern Tanzania, is an endorheic rift basin that contains Lake Rukwa. It forms part of the East African Rift system and has produced a number of Cretaceous and Oligocene fossils.
Stratigraphy
[edit]| Stratigraphy of the Rukwa Rift basin[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time period | Group | Formation | Member | |
| Cenozoic | Pliocene-Holocene | Lake Beds sequence | Upper Member | |
| Lower Member | ||||
| Unconformity | ||||
| Oligocene | Red Sandstone Group | Nsungwe Formation | Songwe Member | |
| Utengule Member | ||||
| Unconformity | Unconformity | |||
| Mesozoic | Cretaceous | Galula Formation | Namba Member | |
| Mtuka Member | ||||
| Unconformity | ||||
| Paleozoic | Latest Carboniferous-Late Permian | Karoo Supergroup | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Roberts, Eric M.; O’Connor, Patrick M.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Gottfried, Michael D.; Jinnah, Zubair A.; Ngasala, Sifael; Choh, Adeline M.; Armstrong, Richard A. (May 2010). "Sedimentology and depositional environments of the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: New insight into Cretaceous and Paleogene terrestrial ecosystems and tectonics in sub-equatorial Africa". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 57 (3): 179–212. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.09.002. ISSN 1464-343X.
8°09′47″S 32°33′54″E / 8.16305°S 32.56492°E
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