Stratigraphic range: Hettangian-Sinemurian ~200–190 Ma
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Dune beds in the Forest Sandstone, Chewore Safari Area, Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe
Type
Geological formation
Unit of
Karoo Supergroup Upper Karoo Group
Underlies
Batoka Formation
Overlies
Pebbly Arkose Formation
Lithology
Primary
Sandstone
Location
Coordinates
20°00′S28°24′E / 20.0°S 28.4°E / -20.0; 28.4
Approximate paleocoordinates
35°00′S5°06′E / 35.0°S 5.1°E / -35.0; 5.1
Region
South-central Africa
Country
Botswana Zambia Zimbabwe
Type section
Named for
Forests of Nyamandlovu District, Zimbabwe
Named by
A.M. MacGregor, Zimbabwe Geological Survey
Forest Sandstone (Zimbabwe)
The Forest Sandstone is a geological formation in southern Africa, dating to roughly between 200 and 190 million years ago and covering the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era.[1] As its name suggests, it consists mainly of sandstone.
Fossils of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus and the primitive sauropod Vulcanodon have been recovered from the Forest Sandstone.
The ForestSandstone is a geological formation in southern Africa, dating to roughly between 200 and 190 million years ago and covering the Hettangian...
ownership. Sherwood Forest is established over an area underlain by the Permian and Triassic age New Red Sandstone. The larger part of the Forest is found across...
The Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, also known as Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest, is a transitory ecotone between the grassy woodlands...
school staff in 1964 and over several weeks, was excavated from the ForestSandstone, the layers dating to the early Jurassic. The type specimen (QG 1)...
then approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak Forest National Geopark (3,600 km2 (1,400 sq mi)) in 2001. In 2004, Zhangjiajie...
Black Forest, the lowest layer of the South German Scarplands composed of Bunter Sandstone, are covered by seemingly endless coniferous forest with their...
The Elbe Sandstone Mountains, also called the Elbe Sandstone Highlands (German: Elbsandsteingebirge, pronounced [ɛlpˈz̥antʃtaɪnɡəˌbɪʁɡə]; Czech: Děčinská...
extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Uppermost ForestSandstone of southern Africa. The only known species is V. karibaensis. Discovered...
the Palatinate Forest is adjoined by the North Palatine Uplands, including the Donnersberg (686.5 m). This is where the bunter sandstone formations typical...
sheltered forest, or the Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest (SSGF), is a vegetation community found in Sydney, Australia that comprises an open forest composition...
The Sherwood Sandstone Group is a Triassic lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which is widespread in Britain, especially in the English...
The Sandstone Trail is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) long-distance walkers' path, following sandstone ridges running north–south from Frodsham in central Cheshire...
only 86 individuals. The known populations grow in Gangan Classified Forest. Sandstone quarrying is common in the area, but isn't known to be an immediate...
Sonsela Sandstone bed, which separates them. The Lower "Petrified Forest Member" is generally known as the Blue Mesa Member. In Petrified Forest National...
resultant clearance of the forest. With the Iron Age came the first use of the Weald as an industrial area. Wealden sandstones contain ironstone, and with...
of South Africa, as well as the Chitake River bonebed quarry at the ForestSandstone Formation in Zimbabwe. Ghost Ranch was located close to the equator...
of virgin forest in southern Thailand and is a remnant of rain forest which is older and more diverse than the Amazon rain forest. Sandstone and mudstone...
of the rocks as separate layers, with the sandstone layers actually being from the underlying ForestSandstone. The formation is a volcanic unit, consisting...
Polo forest, also known as Vijaynagar forest, is a dry mixed deciduous forest near Abhapur village in Vijaynagar Taluka, Sabarkantha district, Gujarat...
the Fontainebleau Forest are an abundant collection of rock art discovered among the sandstone boulders of the Fontainebleau Forest. Several thousand...
heavily eroded sandstone mountain range, visible in outcrops such as those around Gin's Leap between Baan Baa and Boggabri. The forest contains at least...
Raath, Michael A. (1969). "A new Coelurosaurian dinosaur from the ForestSandstone of Rhodesia". Arnoldia. 4 (28): 1–25. Raath, Michael A. (1972). "Fossil...
"Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset...
The Matilija Sandstone (/məˈtɪləhə/) is a sedimentary geologic unit of Eocene epoch in the Paleogene Period, found in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties...
name was originally applied to the beds above the Sonsela Sandstone Bed in Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona. Correlative beds of similar...
rainforest, and Shale sandstone transition forest, among others. Dry sclerophyll forests Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests – Predominant on the northeast...
Peak. The base of the formation includes sandstone and siltstone in distinct, parallel layers. The sandstone is unique in its relative coarseness and...
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