Kalahari Deposits | |
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Stratigraphic range: Aptian ~ | |
Type | Geological formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Conglomerate |
Other | Mudstone |
Location | |
Coordinates | 29°30′S 18°24′E / 29.5°S 18.4°E |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 44°12′S 2°18′E / 44.2°S 2.3°E |
Region | Western Cape |
Country | South Africa |
Type section | |
Named for | Kalahari Desert |
The Kalahari Deposits is an Early Cretaceous (Aptian)[1] geologic formation in South Africa. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2] The depositional environment is described as a crater lake where poorly lithified, concretionary conglomerate and volcaniclastic, intraclastic, calcareous mudstone were deposited under quiet subaqueous conditions, probably a "crater-fill succession above an olivine-melilitie intrusion".[3]