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 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 …

This study presents an integrated mineralogical–geochemical database on fine-grained
sediments transported by all major rivers of southern Africa, including the Zambezi …

Until recently, the Guadalupian (middle Permian) tetrapod fossil record was known almost
exclusively from the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the Cis-Urals region of Russia, limiting …

In the Prince Charles Mountains (PCMs) the conformable Permian–Triassic (P–T)
succession is characterised by an abrupt transition from coal-bearing to coal-lacking strata …

Dicynodont fossils were first collected in the Luangwa Basin, Zambia, in the 1920s, but
limited detailed study and taxonomic uncertainty have obscured their biostratigraphic utility …

The most severe mass extinction of marine species and terrestrial vertebrates and plants is
associated with the Permian–Triassic boundary (∼ 251 Ma). The extinction interval is also …

It has recently been found that Neoproterozoic glaciogenic sediments were deposited
mainly at low paleolatitudes, in marked qualitative contrast to their Pleistocene counterparts …

Early Permian floral diversity and palaeodepositional environment of the Lower Permian
Rajhara sequence of Damodar Basin have been studied based on mega-, microfossil and …

In the present study, palynological and palaeoenvironmental investigations have been
carried out on a 601 m-thick sedimentary sequence intersected by borehole MCP-8 …