LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EMAKWEZINI FORMATION (KAROO SUPERGROUP), SOUTH AFRICA

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Research Article| September 01, 2015 LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EMAKWEZINI FORMATION (KAROO SUPERGROUP), SOUTH AFRICA E.M. BORDY; E.M. BORDY Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa, e-mail: emese.bordy@uct.ac.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar R. PREVEC R. PREVEC Albany Museum and Rhodes University, Somerset Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa, e-mail: r.prevec@am.org.za Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information E.M. BORDY Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa, e-mail: emese.bordy@uct.ac.za R. PREVEC Albany Museum and Rhodes University, Somerset Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa, e-mail: r.prevec@am.org.za Publisher: Geological Society of South Africa First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1996-8590 Print ISSN: 1012-0750 © 2015 Geological Society of South Africa South African Journal of Geology (2015) 118 (3): 307–310. https://doi.org/10.2113/gssajg.118.3.307 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation E.M. BORDY, R. PREVEC; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EMAKWEZINI FORMATION (KAROO SUPERGROUP), SOUTH AFRICA. South African Journal of Geology 2015;; 118 (3): 307–310. doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/gssajg.118.3.307 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySouth African Journal of Geology Search Advanced Search Abstract The middle (?) to upper Permian Emakwezini Formation is part of the lower Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) in the Lebombo Basin in the eastern part of South Africa. The unit is highly significant both palaeobotanically and economically due to its plant-rich carbonaceous mudstones and multiple semi-anthracite to anthracite seams that range in thickness from <1 m to up to 15 m, respectively. Owing to rare high quality outcrops as well as post-depositional faulting and intrusions, some of its lithostratigraphic attributes (e.g., thickness, regional distribution) are undefined; however its abundant and diagnostic Late Permian plant fossils are helpful in the regional mapping of the unit. The Formation is considered a stratigraphic equivalent of the Normandien Formation (and informal Estcourt Formation) of the eastern and north-eastern, and the Balfour Formation of the southern main Karoo Basin. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.