The Ellisras Basin is a geological basin that spans the border between South Africa and Botswana, extending west from the town of Lephalale (formerly Ellisras) in Limpopo province. Basin fill consists of sedimentary rocks of the Karoo Supergroup, with maximum thickness of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).
The principal economic resources in the basin are the Waterberg Coalfield in South African and the Mmamabula coalfields in Botswana.
The EllisrasBasin is a geological basin that spans the border between South Africa and Botswana, extending west from the town of Lephalale (formerly Ellisras)...
at depths of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) below the surface. The Witwatersrand Basin is a largely underground geological formation which surfaces in the Witwatersrand...
fossils have been found in the Balfour and Katberg Formations of the Karoo basin in South Africa; these specimens offer the best prospects of identifying...
The Waterberg Coalfield is an extensive deposit of coal in the EllisrasBasin in South Africa, lying mostly in the Waterberg District Municipality of the...
Jurassic. These accumulated in a retroarc foreland basin called the "main Karoo" Basin. This basin was formed by the subduction and orogenesis along the...
Dimitrievich Zalessky described a new type of petrified wood from the Donets Basin in modern Ukraine. He called the wood Callixylon, though he did not find...
Lephalale, and employs 2,000 people. In 1920, coal was found in the EllisrasBasin, but at first little was done to investigate the size of the resource...
tetrapod fauna of the Upper Elliot and Clarens formations in the main Karoo Basin (South Africa and Lesotho)". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France...
Coelophysis. Another specimen from the Portland Formation of the Hartford Basin, now at the Boston Museum of Science, has also been referred to Coelophysis...
outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin: the Transvaal Basin. It is approximately two billion years old and is divided into...
fossils had been found in the flood plains of South Africa, in the Karoo Basin. This behavior had been seen at a relatively low occurrence in the pre-Cenozoic...
mountains provided the bulk of the 6 km thick Beaufort sediments in the Karoo Basin, but they also covered the Cape Fold Belt, thereby protecting them from...
considered to be a western extension of the Waterberg Coalfield in the EllisrasBasin in South Africa, to the east, which contains about 40% of South Africa's...
Witwatersrand Basin (2,700 Mya) and the Bushveld Igneous Complex (2,050 Mya). It consists of three parts, the Transvaal Basin in the east the Griqualand Basin in...
and the fossils of Pradhania were discovered from the same region and basin in India as M. hislopi. The following cladogram shows the position of Massospondylus...
tetrapod fauna of the Upper Elliot and Clarens formations in the main Karoo Basin (South Africa and Lesotho)". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France...
to significant changes in drainage basins with the Orange River likely losing a drainage area in the Kalahari Basin, the Limpopo River losing interior...
Prolacerta, Proterosuchus, Euparkeria, and Erythrosuchus from the Karoo Basin of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1238–1254...
Triassic Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in the Karoo Basin of present-day South Africa, a region that had been an enclave of Gondwana...
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