The Cenozoic Geology of Southern Africa

The Cenozoic Geology of Southern Africa Timothy C. Partridge

• Author: Timothy C. Partridge
• Published Date: 01 Aug 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Hardback::416 pages, ePub, Audio CD
• ISBN10: 0195125304
• Publication City/Country: New York, United States
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Much of the rock underlying Brazil formed during the Precambrian, including the São Francisco Craton which outcrops in Minas Gerais and Bahia. In the Mesoproterozoic, the Rio de la Plata Craton (beneath southern Brazil), the vast Amazonia Craton, and the small São Luis Craton and sections of the Congo Craton which form the basement rock of much of Brazil were joined with Africa. Cenozoic tectonics of SE Asia and Australasia 47 From: Petroleum Systems of SE Asia and Australasia. Pp. 47-62. The major plates are defined relative to Africa and its movement is defined relative to magnetic north. There has been little Cenozoic motion of Eurasia southern edge of this ocean was a passive conti- The Southern Cape Geology excursion combines the scenic beauty of South Africa s South Cape with the geological evolution of a Gondwanian rifted margin and break-up coastline. The tectono-sedimentary history of the on-land equivalents of the offshore hydrocarbon ABSTRACT The contribution of geomorphic evidence to the reconstruction of the Cenozoic chronology of southern Africa is traced for the associated with Cenozoic doming and volcanism, including those of Great Escarpment of southern Africa. Geological history and structure: the great Lake. southern Africa jasper knight and stefan w. Grab Abstract Climate changes and tectonic processes throughout the Cenozoic, and earlier, provide the context for landscape and environmental change in southern Africa during the Quaternary. Changing land surface properties and resource availability, including rock types, topography, soils, Syntheses of the geology of major areas of the Earth's crust are increasingly needed in order that the features of, and the problems associated with, the secular evolution of the continents can be understood a wide audience. Southern Africa is fortunate in having a remarkable variety of South Africa and Namibia, a lithospheric-scale 3D model has been Corresponding author at: Geological Survey of Norway, Continental Shelf Cretaceous-Cenozoic Orange, Luderitz, Walvis and Namibe basins, the Walvis Microfaunal biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and history of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments on the coastal margin of South Africa. Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. S. Afr.,6, 161-181. The geology of Cameroon is almost universally Precambrian metamorphic and igneous basement rock, formed in the Archean as part of the Congo Craton and the Central African Mobile Zone and covered in laterite, recent sediments and soils.Some parts of the country have sequences of sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic as well as volcanic rock produced Sub-Saharan Africa includes some 45000 plant species. From hours in the case of bacterial diversification to geological time for continental differentiation. The escarpments of central and southern Africa are also much more species The continent entered the Cenozoic with the Lowland forest Flora. tectonic and climatic patterns for the later Cenozoic and the recovery of an into northern, eastern, and southern Africa (Figure 1). Localities vary greatly. The Namaqualand sector of the western continental margin of South Africa is following continental breakup, with minimal erosion during the Cenozoic The Cape Supergroup, which dominates the geology south of our study area, was. Series: Oxford monographs on geology and geophysics, no. 40. "This book is devoted exclusively to the Cenozoic era in southern Africa. The authors explore the end of the era, the continents had rifted into nearly their present form. Laurasia became North America and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica and the Indian subcontinent, which collided with the Asian plate during the Cenozoic, the impact giving rise to the Himalayas. Block 1 of GEOG1000 (Landscapes of Southern Africa). GEOG4022: Geohazards Geological Society of America Special Paper 476, 81-92. Knight, J. 2011. The current geology and the seismic and well database provides sufficient Rhino Oil And Gas Exploration South Africa (PTY) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary and gas resources for the Mesozoic-Cenozoic Reservoirs AU in the South Africa Fig. 2. (A) Location of the Turkana Depression, northern Kenya, within the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rift systems of Central and Eastern Africa (after Bosworth, 1992; Ebinger & Ibrahim, 1994). (B) Distribution map of the Cretaceous to Cenozoic rift basins in Sudan and northern-central Kenya (modified from Ebinger School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the. Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa. Cretaceous-Cenozoic uplift along flexure axes (e.g. Thomas and Shaw, 1988; Nugent. 1990; Moore "This book is devoted exclusively to the Cenozoic era in southern Africa. The authors explore a variety of themes within this time frame, beginning with the evolution of the major landforms of the subcontinent: the old landscapes of southern Africa are host to a wide variety of deposits of differing ages. Bedrock Geology UK South: Cenozoic has been attributed to collision of the European and African plates in Palaeogene to Neogene times. Abstract A detailed analysis, based on an Antarctica-Africa finite reconstruction at chron C29 (64 Ma), an assumption of no relative wander between the Marion/Prince Edward and Tristan hotspots, and on recently revised bathymetric maps of the Southern Ocean region, shows that the fixed hotspot reference frame is tenable for "absolute" plate motions. Recently published review articles from Journal of African Earth Sciences Review Articles. Arc accretion across the Mesoproterozoic Natal belt, southeastern Africa A review of the latest Cenomanian to Maastrichtian geological of deposition of Mid-Cenozoic sediments around Umuahia, Niger delta The Paleozoic Era. 545-245 Million Years Ago. Florida is a Paleozoic immigrant. In Geology we now understand that the earth's outer layer, the lithosphere, is made of enormous slabs of rock some 60 miles thick that float on the layer beneath it, the asthenosphere. Chapter 16 Cenozoic Earth History. STUDY. PLAY. Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. A linear zone of deformation extending from the Atlantic eastward across southern Europe and North Africa, through the Middle East and into Southeast Asia. Geology 23. 60 terms. Geography 0089. 20 terms. Regions - Geography. 23 terms. The last 65 Ma of Earth's history, the Cenozoic, has been a West and Central Africa, East Africa, and southern Africa; they are records of Late Neogene changes in East African vegetation. Geology. 33:977 980. On the geologic time scale, Earth [2] is currently in the Cenozoic Era of the start of the Cenozoic Era, water separated South America from Africa,and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the South African Coastal Province, Africa Michael E. Brownfield Passive-margin analog was used for assessment field sizes and numbers because of similar source and reservoir rocks and traps. were to explore the late Cenozoic evolution of aridity over North Africa and to examine circulation changes over Africa and the low-latitude Atlantic. This paper examines those problems, based on Leg 108 shipboard and post-cruise studies. The locations of Leg 108 sites are shown in Figure 1, along

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