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Verbrande Berg Formation

Verbrande Berg Fm

Period: 
Permian

Age Interval: 
Early Permian (Asselian)


Province: 
SouthAfrica-Namibia-Botswana

Type Locality and Naming

Huab Basin. Named after the Verbrande Berg (Afrikaans/Dutch for "Burnt Mountain") in Damaraland, northwestern Namibia.

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Up to approximately 35 meters thick. It consists of fining-upward cycles of coarse- to fine-grained point-bar sandstones, interbedded with dark carbonaceous shales, mudstones, and thin coal seams.


Lithology Pattern: 
Claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Rests on the fluvioglacial and glaciomarine deposits of the Ndaberas Formation (the regional Dwyka Gr equivalent); or Dwyka Gr in general or sits unconformably directly on the Neoproterozoic Damara basement where the Ndaberas is absent.

Upper contact

Conformably overlain by the massive, braided fluvial sandstones of the Tsarabis Fm.

Regional extent

Lower Ecca Group equivalent (Namibia).


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Fossils

Highly rich in plant fossils, particularly the Glossopteris flora (including well-preserved leaves, wood, and root structures), which provided the abundant organic material necessary to form the basin's coal seams. (Horsthemke, E., Ledendecker, S., & Porada, H. (1990)


Age 

Early Permian (Asselian)

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Asselian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.1

    Beginning date (Ma): 
298.35

    Ending stage: 
Asselian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.8

    Ending date (Ma):  
294.59

Depositional setting

Continental, meandering river systems and heavily vegetated, swampy floodplains (paludal environments).


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

From the O. Catuneanu et al. / Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 211–253; Horsthemke, E., Ledendecker, S., & Porada, H. (1990): Depositional environments and stratigraphic correlation of the Karoo Sequence in northwestern Damaraland; Wagensommer, A., et al. (2015): Early Permian deposits of the Huab area, Namibia: A continental to marine transition.