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The Transvaal Supergroup is a stratigraphic unit in northern South Africa and southern Botswana, situated on the Kaapvaal Craton, roughly between 23 and 29 degrees southern latitude and 22 to 30 degrees eastern longitude.
As of 2012, South Africa was the world's fifth-largest producer of gold but South Africa still possesses the world's second-largest reserves of gold. [14] It is the world's largest producer of chromium , manganese , platinum , vanadium and vermiculite and the second largest producer of ilmenite , palladium , rutile and zirconium . [ 15 ]
Stratigraphic units in this group include (from oldest to youngest): Enon Formation : Contains subordinate sandstones and different types of thickly-bedded conglomerates , which consist mainly of quartzite and sometimes slate , shale , and charcoal .
Moschops was a therapsid from the Middle Permian of South Africa. Lystrosaurus was the most common synapsid shortly after the Permian–Triassic extinction event . With the formation of the Falkland Plateau and Cape Fold Mountain ranges, rivers from the south began to dominate the sedimentation in the Karoo Sea, which began to silt up.
Karoo National Park near Beaufort West, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The geological formations of the Beaufort Group are outcrop over approximately 145 000 km 2, attaining a total thickness of around 6000 m thick at its thickest outcrops. In the west, the lowermost Beaufort Group rocks are found east of Laingsburg and remain continuous ...
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The Elliot Formation is a geological formation and forms part of the Stormberg Group, the uppermost geological group that comprises the greater Karoo Supergroup. Outcrops of the Elliot Formation have been found in the northern Eastern Cape, southern Free State, and in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa.
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