Kalahari Deposits
The Kalahari Deposits is an Early Cretaceous (Aptian) geologic formation in South Africa. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The depositional environment is described as a crater lake where poorly lithified, concretionary conglomerate and volcaniclastic, intraclastic, calcareous mudstone were deposited under quiet subaqueous conditions, probably a "crater-fill succession above an olivine-melilitie intrusion".
| Kalahari Deposits | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Aptian ~ | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Conglomerate |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 29.5°S 18.4°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 44.2°S 2.3°E |
| Region | Western Cape |
| Country | South Africa |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Kalahari Desert |
Kalahari Deposits (South Africa) | |
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