by the Sinakumbe Group of Ordovician to Devonian age. The Lower Karoo Group (Late
Carboniferous to Permian age) consists of the basal Siankondobo Sandstone Formation,
which comprises three facies, overlain by the Gwembe Coal Formation with its economically
important coal deposits, in turn overlain by the Madumabisa Mudstone Formation which
consists of lacustrine mudstone, calcilutite, sandstone, and concretionary calcareous beds …