Ripon Fm
Period:
Permian
Age Interval:
Early-Middle Permian (Artinskian-Kungurian)
Province:
SouthAfrica-Namibia-Botswana
Lithology and Thickness
Deep marine turbidite sandstones and alternating mudstones
Lithology Pattern:
Sandy_claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Conformably overlies the carbonaceous mudstones and tuffs of the Collingham and Whitehill Fm
Upper contact
Conformably overlain by the Waterford and Fort Brown Fm
Regional extent
Main Karoo Basin, South Africa, particularly prominent in the southern and eastern parts of the basin
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Artinskian-Kungurian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Artinskian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
290.51
Ending stage:
Kungurian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
274.37
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
From the O. Catuneanu et al. / Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 211–253