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    Vaalbara (redirect from Grunehogna Craton)
    in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, formed the eastern part of the Kalahari Craton for at least a billion years. Grunehogna collided with the rest of...
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    Sudan, and Zambia) Kaapvaal Craton – Archaean craton, possibly part of the Vaalbara supercontinent (South Africa) Kalahari Craton – African geological area...
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    Southern Africa (AKA Kalahari) West Africa (AKA Niger) Guinea (region) Sudan (region) by physiography: Congo Basin Kalahari Basin Kalahari Desert Namib Nile...
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    the African desert regions to the north (The Sahara) and to the south (Kalahari). The differences in temperature between the deserts and the Congo Basin...
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    which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari craton and the Congo craton, collided. This collision was one of the many that happened...
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    that group II kimberlites show closer affinities to lamproites than they do to group I kimberlites. Hence, he reclassified group II kimberlites as orangeites...
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  • Antarctica, India, Congo and Kalahari on one side and Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia, West African and Rio de la Plata cratons on other – formation of Adamastor...
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    great oil trap. Clay smears in the sediments seal the formations so oil does not escape out. Basinward dipping reflectors Basinward dipping reflectors...
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    and were surrounded by one single ocean. (It is possible that the cratons of Kalahari, and Rio Plato, were also part of that early collision since they...
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  • Insular India – Isolated land mass which became the Indian subcontinent Kalahari Craton – African geological area Kazakhstania – Geological region in Central...
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    speculation. It might be related to the collision of the Kaapvaal Craton with the Zimbabwe Craton, eventually to become knitted together to form a single continental...
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    power on real datasets from the South African Seismic Array [SASE] in Kalahari (Carlson et al., 1996) and compared their results when using one and multiple...
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    000 Ma–2,500 Ma), and stopped during the Cambrian Period. It is built on a craton of rock, which is the basis of the Precambrian Shield. On top of the base...
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    Congo Craton, whilst the Grootfontain and the volcano-sedimentary formations of the Rehoboth-Sinclair Complexes were assembled with the Kalahari Craton. The...
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    shadow directly below the sign) In South America, whilst in the continental cratons soils are almost as old as in Australia and Southern Africa, the presence...
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    Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Kalahari Desert. The supergroup consists of a sequence of units, mostly of nonmarine...
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  • Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    therocephalians Tetracynodon, Moschorhinus, Ictidosuchoides and Promoschorhynchus—but do not appear to have been abundant in the Triassic; complete ecological recovery...
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    (January 2002) The making of a diamond mega-placer on the margin of the Kalahari craton: Guidelines for future prospecting (August 2003) Zircon growth in slate...
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    Pelotas Basin (category Landforms of Rio Grande do Sul)
    administratively part of the southern states Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil and the departments Cerro Largo, Rocha and Treinta y Tres of...
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    cratonic shields. The history of the Archaean cratons is extremely complex and protracted. The cratons appear to have been accumulated to form the greater...
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  • Southern Khoikhoi languages speaking peoples: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Kalahari desert, Zimbabwe, west and southwestern South Africa. Khoikhoi Nama (Namaqua)...
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    lenticular sandstones also reappear in the uppermost Clarens Formation, as do ripple marks and clay-pellet conglomerates, which reveals that the environment...
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    American Frontiers on PBS. See picture in Kemp, Christopher (Dec 21, 2013). "Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints". New Scientist: 64–66. doi:10...
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    crystals, and no layered structure. As an intrusive rock, dip and strike do not apply, but the massive rock is cracked on jointing planes, which tend...
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    of the United States. The Whitehill Formation of the Karoo and Nama or Kalahari Basin is contemporaneous with the Huab Formation of the Huab Basin and...
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    assigned to Abrictosaurus sp., but this has not been supported, as the specimen does not have unique characteristics of Abrictosaurus, heterodontosaurids, or...
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    the field and get back these kind of data — a new dinosaur — that really does start to fill in some of those anatomical gaps." The genus is known from...
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    (the western correlate of the Middleton Formation). The Teekloof Formation does not underlie other units other than the younger Karoo dolerites and sills...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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