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

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-212

  Roberts, Eric M ^a   O'Connor, Patrick M ^b   Stevens, Nancy J ^b   Gottfried, Michael D ^c   Jinnah, Zubair A ^d   Ngasala, Sifael ^c   Choh, Adeline M ^d   Armstrong, Richard A ^e  

^a SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; Carbonatite; Continental; Fluvial; Mesozoic; Vertebrate paleontology

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHOFACIES; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VERTEBRATE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; RUKWA; TANZANIA;

CROCODYLIFORMES; DINOSAURIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953612828     PISSN: 1464343X     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.09.002     Document Type: Review

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