Rukwa Rift Basin

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

Stratigraphy of the Rukwa Rift basin[1]
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

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Eric M.; O’Connor, Patrick M.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Gottfried, Michael D.; Jinnah, Zubair A.; Ngasala, Sifael; Choh, Adeline M.; Armstrong, Richard A. (May 2010). "Sedimentology and depositional environments of the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania: New insight into Cretaceous and Paleogene terrestrial ecosystems and tectonics in sub-equatorial Africa". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 57 (3): 179–212. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.09.002. ISSN 1464-343X.

8°09′47″S 32°33′54″E / 8.16305°S 32.56492°E / -8.16305; 32.56492

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