The Karoo Supergroup was formed in a vast inland basin starting 320 million years ago, at a time when that part of Gondwana which would eventually become Africa, lay over the South Pole.

The Karoo Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Kalahari 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. [3]

Oct 1, 2005 · The Karoo basins of south-central Africa evolved during the first-order cycle of supercontinent assembly and breakup of Pangea, under the influence of two distinct tectonic regimes sourced from the southern and northern margins of Gondwana.

Jun 15, 2015 · South Africa’s Karoo region has been in the headlines in recent years because of the prospect of a controversial fracking programme to exploit its potential shale gas resources.

Jul 1, 1996 · In the Main Karoo basin, the Prince Albert and Pietermaritzburg Formations, which overlie the Dwyka Group, consist essentially of mudrock. In the Kalahari/Aranos basin in Namibia, however, two prominent sandstone members occur in this interval.

The Karoo is a large, complex sedimentary basin in South Africa, extending across nearly two-thirds of the country. The basin is filled with Carboniferous to Early Jurassic sedimentary strata over 5 km thick, known as the Karoo Supergroup.

The Karoo Supergroup of Botswana forms an integral part of the greater southern African Karoo basins of late Carboniferous to early Jurassic times. The Karoo basins host all the coal deposits...

Celebrated as a veritable treasure trove of fossils, the Karoo basin is famous among palaeontologists for the record it holds of the transition between reptiles and mammals – crucial to our own evolution as humans.

Sep 1, 1993 · The Karoo Basin is bounded on its southern margin by the Cape Fold Belt, onlaps onto the Kaapvaal Craton in the north and is classified as a foreland basin.

Dec 8, 2017 · The Great Karoo basin is divided into two parts known as the eastern basin and western basin. The eastern basin consists of a major portion of Great Karoo with an area of 480 kilometers from north to south and 80 to 130 kilometer in width.