A reinterpretation of the Wagendrift Quarry, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal Province, and its implications for Karoo Basin Paleogeography

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 429-438

  Selover, Robert W ^a   Gastaldo, Robert A ^a  

^a Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KAROO SUPERGROUP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; KAROO BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27144461282     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/108.3.429     Document Type: Article

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