Origin and evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin

This book describes the latest research on the geological, geochemical, geochronological, biological, and geomorphic evolution of the unique and relatively pristine landscape of the Cape Mountains and the Karoo Basin, a region in South Africa that is currently being targeted for shale gas exploratio...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Linol, Bastien (Editor), De Wit, Maarten J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
Series:Regional geology reviews.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Subjects:
Geology -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
Historical geology -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
Fossil fuels -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
Geology, Structural -- South Africa -- Western Cape.
Geobiology.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Subsurface geology and geophysics. Deep borehole lithostratigraphy and basin structure of the southern Karoo Basin re-visited / Bastien Linol, Naledi Chere, Thomas Muedi, Vhuhwavhoau Nengovhela, and Maarten J. de Wit
  • Seismic imaging of dolerite sills in the Karoo Basin, with implications for shale gas potential / Stephanie Scheiber-Enslin, Susan Webb, and Musa Manzi
  • Ambient noise tomography (passive seismic) to image the Cape-Karoo transition near Jansenville, Eastern Cape / Lucien Bezuidenhout, Moctar Doucouré, Viera Wafener, and Maarten J. de Wit
  • Structural geology. New structural data and U/Pb dates from the Gamtoos Complex and lowermost Cape supergroup of the Eastern Cape Fold Belt, in support of a southward paleo-subduction polarity / Warren Miller, Maarten J. de Wit, Bastien Linol, and Richard Armstrong
  • An overview of cape fold belt geochronology : implications for sediment provenance and the timing of orogenesis / Scarlett C.J. Blewett and David Phillips
  • Magmatism and metamorphism. New evidence for correlation of basalts of the Suurberg Group with the upper part of the Karoo Basalt sequence of Lesotho / J.S. Goonie Marsh
  • High-resolution petrographical and chemical scanning of Karoo sedimentary rocks near dolerite sill contacts reveals metamorphic effects on shale porosity / Vhuhwavhohau Nengovhela, Maarten J. de Wit, Alan R. Butcher, and Erin Honse
  • Contact metamorphism of black shales in the thermal aureole of a dolerite sill within the Karoo Basin / David Moorcroft and Nicolas Tonnelier
  • Stratigraphy and sedimentary systems. Dwka Eskers along the northern margin of the main Karoo Basin / Mike C.J. de Wit
  • Spatiotemporal sedimentary facies variations in the lower Permian Whitehill Formation, Ecca Group, Karpp Basin / Kenneth Chukwuma and Emese M. Bordy
  • Is the postglacial history of the Baltic Sea an appropriate analogue for the formation of black shales in the lower Ecca Group (Early Permian) of the Karoo Basin, South Africa? / Hans-Martin Schulz, Naledi Chere, Claire Geel, Peter Booth, and Maarten J. de Wit
  • Geochemistry of the Pronksberg Bentonite of the Upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic), Eastern Cape, South Africa / Emese M. Bordy and Miengah Abrahams
  • Paleontology and paleo-environments. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Witteberg Group and the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in South Africa / Robert W. Gess
  • Advances in nonmarine Karoo biostratigraphy : significance for understanding basin development / Bruce S. Rubidge, Michael O. Day, Natasha Barbolini, P. John Hancox, Jonah N. Choiniere, Marion K. Bamford, Pia A. VIglietti, Blair W. McPhee, and Sifelani Jirah
  • A review of stratigraphic, geochemical, and paleontologic data of the terrestrial end-Permian record in the Karoo Basin, South Africa / Johann Neveling, Robert A. Gastaldo, Sandra L. Kamo, John W. Geissman, Cindy V. Looy, and Marion K. Bamford
  • Fossil woods from the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Jurassic Karoo Basin and their environmental interpretation / Marion K. Bamford
  • Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Karoo supergroup / Maarten J. de Wit
  • Geodynamics. Correlation and paleogeographic reconstruction of the Cape-Karoo Basin sequences and their equivalents across Central West Gondwana / Bastien Linol, Maarten J. de Wit, Charles H. Kasanzu, Renata da Silva Schmitt, Francisco Jose Corrêa-Martins, and Andre Assis
  • Epilogue : simplified Cape-Karoo stratigraphy.

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