Title:

Report: Stratigraphic investigations of the Neoproterozoic Otavi/Swakop Group in the southern Kunene Region

Publication Year:
2018
Abstract:

As part of an ongoing investigation (since 1993) of the Otavi/Swakop Group in the southern Kunene Region, 90 stratigraphic sections were measured in 2018 in 12 areas within the Northern and Northern Margin Zones of the Damara Belt, the Southern and Eastern Zones of the Kaoko Belt, and the Otavi Mountainland of the Northern Platform. The new sections document (1) structural rotations related to rift faulting of latest Cryogenian (Marinoan) age in the Northern Zone (SE Summas Mountains), (2) early Cryogenian (Sturtian) growth faulting and subglacial trough incision in the Eastern Zone near Ondevede, (3) abrupt facies changes in the lower Rasthof Formation (Sturtian cap carbonate) in the Northern Margin Zone on the farms Aub and Rockeys, (4) stratigraphic relations between constituent formations of the Cryogenian Abenab Subgroup in the Otavi Mountainland and the Kunene Region, (5) the nature and origin of northward thickening in the Ediacaran Tsumeb Subgroup of the Eastern Zone between the Hoanib and Hoarusib rivers, and (6) the magnitudes of Ediacaran mega-karst relief, basement incision, and burial by the Welkom Subgroup (Mulden Group) in the Northern Margin Zone on farm Welkom. Keywords: Neoproterozoic; Cryogenian; Sturtian; Marinoan; Otavi Group; Swakop Group; Mulden Group; Abenab Subgroup; Tsumeb Subgroup; Welkom Subgroup.

Publication Title:

Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia

Publisher:
Geological Survey of Namibia
Pages:
100-113
Item Type:
Journal Article
Language:
en
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