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词条 Rukwa Rift Basin
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  1. {{coord missing|Tanzania}}Stratigraphy

  2. References

The Rukwa Rift Basin, located in southwestern Tanzania, is an endorheic rift basin that contains Lake Rukwa. It forms part of the East African Rift system and has produced a number of Cretaceous and Oligocene fossils.

{{coord missing|Tanzania}}Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy of the Rukwa Rift basin[1]
Time periodGroupFormationMember
CenozoicPliocene-HoloceneLake Beds sequenceUpper Member
Lower Member
Unconformity
OligoceneRed Sandstone GroupNsungwe FormationSongwe Member
Utengule Member
UnconformityUnconformity
MesozoicMiddle CretaceousGalula FormationNamba Member
Mtuka Member
Unconformity
PaleozoicLatest Carboniferous-Late PermianKaroo Supergroup

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|last=Roberts|first=Eric M.|last2=O’Connor|first2=Patrick M.|last3=Stevens|first3=Nancy J.|last4=Gottfried|first4=Michael D.|last5=Jinnah|first5=Zubair A.|last6=Ngasala|first6=Sifael|last7=Choh|first7=Adeline M.|last8=Armstrong|first8=Richard A.|date=May 2010|title=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|url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1464343X09001605|journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences|volume=57|issue=3|pages=179–212|doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.09.002|issn=1464-343X}}
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