The Karoo Supergroup outcropst in the mid-Zambezi Valley, southern Zambia. It is underlain by the Sinakumbe Group of Ordovician to Devonian age. The Lower Karoo Group (Late Carboniferous to Permian age) consists of the basal Siankondobo Sandstone Formation, which comprises three facies, overlain by the Gwembe Coal Formation with its economically important coal …

Coal deposit locations in Mashonaland West Province Geology of the Mana Pools area deposits General geology. The area is predominated by sediments of the Karoo Supergroup i.e. the lower and upper Karoo, and Jurassic material. These deposits lie within the Mana Pools basin which is bound to the north by a fault which is interpreted as a half-graben.

The two coal types led to a new palaeogeographic setting for the Mid-Zambezi basin which is in agreement with the new rift concept. It was more of a trough having a SW–NE trend axis which was in the centre filled by a shallow freshwater lake. The above coal-belt was formed out of a peatswamp zone along its palaeo-shoreline.

LOWER KAROO IN THE MID-ZAMBEZI BASIN (ZIMBABWE) LUBIMBI LUSULU BUSI - SENGWA KAONGA ATI UPPER KAROO Tillite Lower Hwange Sandstone Black Shale and Coal Group Upper Hwange Sandstone Madumabisa Mudstones Sidaga Mudstone Hankano Beds Clay - Ranch Formation Ridge Sandstone Tshale Formation Waterfall Sandstone Bira Coal Measures Lubimbi …

OSTI.GOV Conference: Gwembe Coal Formation, Karoo Supergroup, Mid-Zambezi valley, southern Zambia; a fluvial plain environment

The study area, the Mid-Zambezi Basin, covers about 40 000 km2 and is situated in the northwestern part of Zimbabwe. Outcrops and suboutcrops of Early Permian Lower Karoo deposits occur between 17° Sand 18° 45' S and 26° E and 19° 30' E (Figure 1). The Lower Karoo

The Lower Karoo Group is a sequence of late Carboniferous and Permian sandstone sedimentary rocks of the Karoo Supergroup, found in Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.. Geology. The Lower Karoo corresponds to the lower portion of the Karoo Supergroup sequence. The basal unit comprises glacial tillites, being the Dwyka Formation in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Basal Beds in the …

The Karoo Supergroup outcropst in the mid-Zambezi Valley, southern Zambia. It is underlain by the Sinakumbe Group of Ordovician to Devonian age. The Lower Karoo Group (Late Carboniferous to Permian age) consists of the basal Siankondobo Sandstone Formation, which comprises three facies, overlain by the Gwembe Coal Formation with its economically important coal deposits, in turn …

Stratigraphic cross-section A of the Lower Karoo Supergroup in the Northern Belt (for colour codes see fig. 5.3). ... in the Permian coal-bearing Karoo strata in the Central Kalahari Karoo Basin (Botswana) revealed new details about the depositional processes and ... Mid-Mesozoic Karoo basins contain the economically most important coal ...

The Karoo Supergroup in the Tuli Basin (South Africa) consists of a sedimentary sequence (̃450-500 m) composed of four stratigraphic units, namely the informal Basal, Middle and Upper Units, and the formal Clarens Formation. The units were deposited in continental settings from approximately Late Carboniferous to Middle Jurassic. This paper focuses on the ̃60-m-thick Basal Unit, which was ...

However, he changed the existing stratigraphy of Bond (1967) for the Lower Karoo of the Mid-Zambezi Valley by defining the Wankie Formation as constituted by the three members Lower Wankie Sandstone, Black Shale and Coal, and Upper Wankie Sandstone . His argument was that these three units replace each other laterally.

The Lower Karoo consists of basal glacial deposits overlain by a sequence of interbedded coal, shale and siltstone, and capped by a very thick (up to 5000 m) lacustrine section of interbedded siltstone and mudstone. The Upper Karoo consists of interbedded coarse sandstones and siltstones thought to be of braided stream and flood plain origin.

The Gwembe Coal Formation of Permian age belongs to the Lower Karoo Group of the Karoo Supergroup (Permo-Carboniferous to early Jurassic), which crops out in the mid-Zambesi Valley, southern Zambia.

The lower Karoo has a basal sandstone, Red mudstone, Gwembe coal formation and the Madumabisa mudstones. The Gwembe coal formation has not been thoroughly investigated although there has been reports of carbonaceous shales outcropping at a point along the Makuti-Kariba highway. Conclusion . Two occurrences of lower Karoo coal bearing strata are ...

This mid-Jurassic extensional episode tology of this part of the Gondwana which has been in took place towards the end of the evolution of the Ka- the focus of geo-economic interest since the discovery of roo-age basins, so it is unlikely that it controlled the coal-bearing Karoo strata, and, more intensively, since accommodation in the Tuli ...