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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