Algoa Basin

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Algoa Basin is a sedimentary basin offshore Algoa Bay in South Africa. The basin depression is a rift currently filled with sediments of Lower Cretaceous age.^[1] Kirkwood Formation makes up part of the fill of Algoa Basin.^[2]

References

^ Muir, Robert A., Emese M. Bordy, and Rose Prevec (2015). "Lower Cretaceous deposit reveals first evidence of a post-wildfire debris flow in the Kirkwood Formation, Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Cretaceous Research, 56, 161–179.
^ Gomez, Bernard, Martínez‐Delclòs, Xavier, Bamford, Marion, & Philippe, Marc (2002). Taphonomy and palaeoecology of plant remains from the oldest African Early Cretaceous amber locality. Lethaia, 35(4), 300–308.

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[1] Muir, Robert A., Emese M. Bordy, and Rose Prevec (2015). "Lower Cretaceous deposit reveals first evidence of a post-wildfire debris flow in the Kirkwood Formation, Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape, South Africa." Cretaceous Research, 56, 161–179.

[2] Gomez, Bernard, Martínez‐Delclòs, Xavier, Bamford, Marion, & Philippe, Marc (2002). Taphonomy and palaeoecology of plant remains from the oldest African Early Cretaceous amber locality. Lethaia, 35(4), 300–308.

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