The Karoo Supergroup in southern Africa occurs in the areally extensive Main Karoo and
Kalahari basins as well as in a number of subsidiary basins in South Africa, Namibia …

For well over a century and a half coal has played a vital role in South Africa's economy and
currently bituminous coal is the primary energy source for domestic electricity generation, as …

The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) was triggered by magmatism of the Siberian
Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP), which left an extensive record of sedimentary Hg …

The Karoo basins of south-central Africa evolved during the first-order cycle of
supercontinent assembly and breakup of Pangea, under the influence of two distinct tectonic …

The Western Karoo depends entirely on groundwater for domestic and agricultural use. An
understanding of the chemical evolution of the groundwater provides insight into the …

Understanding the dynamics of continental Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) relies on precise
dating of basaltic rocks. LIP research has traditionally focused on dating lavas, often …

Abstract Fossil discoveries from South Africa have greatly expanded knowledge of the
development of life on Earth. In particular, the enormous palaeontological wealth of the …

Six time interval maps were constructed that depict the plate tectonic configuration,
paleogeography and lithofacies for Pangea from the Late Carboniferous through the Middle …

Quantification of fluid generation during contact metamorphism of shale is important for the
understanding of metamorphic processes, fluid flow in sedimentary basins and perturbations …

Abstract The Karoo Basin of South Africa was one of several contemporaneous intracratonic
basins in southwestern Gondwana that became active in the Permo-Carboniferous (280 Ma) …