Anatomy and Stratigraphic Development of a Basin Floor Turbidite System in the Laingsburg Formation, Main Karoo Basin, South Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.J. Sixsmith ◽  
S.S. Flint ◽  
H.DeV. Wickens ◽  
S.D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Karoo Basin ◽  
Basin Floor ◽  
Turbidite System

scholarly journals Quantification of Basin-Floor Fan Pinchouts: Examples From the Karoo Basin, South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Anne S. Hansen ◽  
David Mark Hodgson ◽  
Anna Pontén ◽  
Daniel Bell ◽  
Stephen Flint
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Karoo Basin ◽  
Basin Floor

Contribution of research borehole data to modelling fine-grained turbidite reservoir analogues, Permian Tanqua–Karoo basin-floor fans (South Africa)

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan M. Luthi ◽  
David M. Hodgson ◽  
Cees R. Geel ◽  
Stephen S. Flint ◽  
Jan Willem Goedbloed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Borehole Data ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Karoo Basin ◽  
Basin Floor

Depositional architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Karoo basin floor to shelf edge succession, Laingsburg depocentre, South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Flint ◽  
D.M. Hodgson ◽  
A.R. Sprague ◽  
R.L. Brunt ◽  
W.C. Van der Merwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Shelf Edge ◽  
Karoo Basin ◽  
Basin Floor ◽  
Depositional Architecture

Lithostratigraphy of the Skoorsteenberg Formation (Ecca Group, Karoo Supergroup), South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-446
Author(s):  
H. de V. Wickens ◽  
D.I. Cole
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Karoo Basin ◽  
Porosity And Permeability ◽  
Basin Floor ◽  
Primary Porosity ◽  
Lower Slope

Abstract The Middle Permian Skoorsteenberg Formation is part of the Ecca Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa. It is also known as the ‘Tanqua fan complex’ due to its origin as a deep-water sedimentation unit associated with a prograding deltaic system. The Skoorsteenberg Formation crops out over approximately 650 km2 along the western margin of the Main Karoo Basin. It thins out in a northerly and easterly direction and therefore has a limited extent with cut-off boundaries to the south and north. It is underlain by the Tierberg Formation and overlain by the Kookfontein Formation, the latter being limited to the regional distribution of the Skoorsteenberg Formation. The Skoorsteenberg Formation has a composite thickness of 400 m and comprises five individual sandstone packages, separated by shale units of similar thickness. The sandstones are very fine- to fine-grained, light greyish to bluish grey when fresh, poorly sorted and lack primary porosity and permeability. The Tanqua fan complex is regarded as one of the world’s best examples of an ancient basin floor to slope fan complex associated with a fluvially dominated deltaic system. It has served as analogue for many deep-water systems around the world and continues to be a most sought after “open-air laboratory” for studying the nature of fine-grained, deep-water sedimentation. The fan systems are essentially tectonically undeformed, outstandingly well exposed and contain an inexhaustible amount of information on the deep-water architecture of lower slope to basin floor turbidite deposits.

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