The Rukwa Rift Basin, located in southwestern Tanzania, is an endorheic rift basin that contains Lake Rukwa. It forms part of the East African Rift system and has produced a number of Cretaceous and Oligocene fossils.
Stratigraphy of the Rukwa Rift basin [1] | ||||
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Time period | Group | Formation | Member | |
Cenozoic | Pliocene- Holocene | Lake Beds sequence | Upper Member | |
Lower Member | ||||
Unconformity | ||||
Oligocene | Red Sandstone Group | Nsungwe Formation | Songwe Member | |
Utengule Member | ||||
Unconformity | Unconformity | |||
Mesozoic | Cretaceous | Galula Formation | Namba Member | |
Mtuka Member | ||||
Unconformity | ||||
Paleozoic | Latest Carboniferous- Late Permian | Karoo Supergroup |
The Rukwa Rift Basin, located in southwestern Tanzania, is an endorheic rift basin that contains Lake Rukwa. It forms part of the East African Rift system and has produced a number of Cretaceous and Oligocene fossils.
Stratigraphy of the Rukwa Rift basin [1] | ||||
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Time period | Group | Formation | Member | |
Cenozoic | Pliocene- Holocene | Lake Beds sequence | Upper Member | |
Lower Member | ||||
Unconformity | ||||
Oligocene | Red Sandstone Group | Nsungwe Formation | Songwe Member | |
Utengule Member | ||||
Unconformity | Unconformity | |||
Mesozoic | Cretaceous | Galula Formation | Namba Member | |
Mtuka Member | ||||
Unconformity | ||||
Paleozoic | Latest Carboniferous- Late Permian | Karoo Supergroup |