Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene Kilwa Group, Southern Coastal Tanzania
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com SCIENCELNCE^I (ri\ DIRECT* journal of African Earth Sciences ELSEVIER Journal of African Earth Sciences 45 (2006) 431-466 www.elsevier.com/locate/jafrearsci Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene Kilwa Group, southern coastal Tanzania Christopher J. Nicholas a*, Paul N. Pearson b, Paul R. Bown c, Tom Dunkley Jones Brian T. Huber d, Amina Karega e, Jackie A. Leesc, Ian K. McMillan b, Aoife O'Halloran a, Joyce M. Singano e, Bridget S. Wade f a Department of Geology, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3 YE, United Kingdom c Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Department of Paleobiology, MRC NHB-121, P.O. Box 37012, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC 20012-7012, USA e Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation, P.O. Box 2774, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Wright Laboratory, Busch Campus, Received 10 October 2005; received in revised form 13 March 2006; accepted 7 April 2006 Available online 13 June 2006 Abstract The geology of southern coastal Tanzania has remained poorly understood since the first comments on its stratigraphy were made over 100 years ago. However, new field surveys combined with shallow drilling along the coast between Kilwa and Lindi are beginning to resolve the depositional history and structural evolution of this region over the past 85 Ma.
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