The Mesoproterozoic(1.11 Ga)Umkondo large igneous province(LIP)in southern Africa and Antarctica was emplaced in<5 Myr and is dominated by low-Ti tholeiitic doleritic-gabbroic sills.It is of particular interest becaus...
This paper focuses on determining total organic carbon(TOC)from boreholes in the Kalahari Basin,Botswana,using Passey's method.The Kalahari Karoo basin is one of several basins in southern Africa filled with Late Carb...
Availability of good quality local construction materials is a major component of road construction as it contributes greatly to the cost of construction.Reserves of good quality construction material may be readily a...
supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)(Nos.26302009 and 18H01300);the NIPR General Collaboration Projects(No.26-34) to Tsunogae
The Zambezi Belt in southern Africa has been regarded as a part of the 570-530 Ma Kuunga Orogen formed by a series of collision of Archean cratons and Proterozoic orogenic belts.Here,we report new petrological,geochem...
When gigantic meteorite impact sites in Southern Africa are plotted on the geological map of the region, they overlap with the SW-NE fault lines and it indicates that meteorite impacts have contributed to the geologic...
In savanna vegetation, trees and their canopies provide an important, but scattered habitat. Seeds of plants growing under these nurse trees often are dispersed by animals, especially birds. In the present study, we i...
The aim of this research was to investigate the interactions between Prosopis plants and soils in the Kalahari area, south west of Botswana. The underlying assumptions of the research were that Prosopis plants signifi...