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Congo Basin
paleo-topography

a

marine incursion

elevation
(m)

b

400
300

40 m 20 m 70 m

150 m

330 m

230

400 m

280

120 m

230 220

460 m -20 m

370 m

200

80 m

120

260

120 m

120

200 m 80

240 m

100
0

180

60

160

0

Sea-level

-40 130

0

analcime-rich carbonate-rich

Tidal /
Aeolian

Glacio-lacustrine Fluvial Fluvio-lacustrine Terrestrial

GUADA
LUPIAN

LOPIN
GIAN

PALEO
CENE

OLIGO
CENE

MISSISSIPIAN
CARBONIFEROUS

PENNSYLVANIAN

CIZURALIAN LOW. MIDDLE UPPER LOWER MIDDLE UPPER LOWER UPPER EOCENE MIOCENE

PERMIAN TRIASSIC JURASSIC CRETACEOUS PALEOGENE NEOGENE

350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0

Fig. 11.4 Stratigraphic records (center section) and paleo-topographic model of the CB ( thick
red line ). The paleo-elevations (values in red , top section) are estimated from sedimentological
data and are adjusted to the long-term sea level curves of Haq et al. ( 1987 ) and Haq and Schutter
( 2008 ). When corrected to the eustatic sea level maximum for the Late Jurassic marine

transgression in east-central Africa (ca. 160 m above present-day sea level), the Triassic and
Cretaceous paleo-topographic highs correspond to two peneplains ( a and b ) traced across the
CB by Stankiewicz and de Wit ( 2006 )