New Regional Correlations Between the Congo, Parana´ and Cape-Karoo Basins of Southwest Gondwana - Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin - page 255

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Fig. 13.15 Backstripped tectonic subsidences of basement of the
CKB (Cloetingh et al. 1992 ), PB (Zalan et al. 1990 ; Milani and de
Wit 2008 ) and CB (Linol 2013 ; Chap. 11 , this Topic). The three curves
indicate: (1) initial early Paleozoic subsidence in the CKB and PB, and

(2) generalized Carboniferous to Triassic subsidence in all the three
basins, followed by (3) Late Jurassic and (4) mid-Cretaceous episodic
subsidence events that are most pronounced in the CB. Black arrows
pointing-up represent main uplifts related to the Kalahari epeirogeny

Following the Pan African-Brasiliano orogens (ca.
500-800 Ma), widespread northerly-derived upper
Neoproterozoic-Cambrian red-beds (the upper Lindian
Supergroup

preferentially preserved across the Central African and
Kalahari Shields (Fig. 13.7 ). These earliest Phanerozoic
sequences were onlapped in the extreme south by a wide
Ordovician-Devonian shallow marine platform (the Cape and the Upper Nama Group) were