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The geology of Africa is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent. The African continent rests over two main plates. The African Plate , accounting for the whole of north Africa, and the Somali Plate , which accounts for the eastern side of mid and southern Africa. [ 1 ]
The Ecca Group is the second of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup of geological strata in southern Africa.It mainly follows conformably after the Dwyka Group in some sections, but in some localities overlying unconformably over much older basement rocks.
Features Africa , Atlantic Ocean , Mediterranean Sea , Red Sea The African plate , also known as the Nubian plate , is a major tectonic plate that includes much of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost part ) and the adjacent oceanic crust to the west and south.
Geology of Africa by country (61 C, 1 P) Stratigraphy of Africa (8 C, 2 P)- ... Geography of Africa; Gibraltar Arc; Gondwana; H. Richard L. Hay (geologist) Hook ...
The geological successions of the Algoa Group outcrop from Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape to East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. There are also putative outcrops of Algoa Group rocks further NE in the Port St Johns area.
During its wanderings, at different times covered by ice sheets, forests, marshes or arid desert, the surface of the West African Craton has been heavily eroded by ice, water and wind. In most places the original rocks are buried far below more recent volcanic and sedimentary deposits. The visible features are usually of comparatively recent ...
Pickford, Martin (2009), "Mio-Plio-Pleistocene geology and palaeobiology of Etosha Pan, Namibia" (PDF), Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia, 14: 95– 139 Senut , Brigite (2000), "Fossil ratite eggshells: A useful tool for Cainozoic biostratigraphy in Namibia" (PDF) , Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia , 12 : 421 ...
The Uitenhage Group is one of three geological groups, which comprise the onshore and offshore post-Karoo middle to lower Upper Mesozoic geological rock units in South Africa.