ECCA

Ecca Geoscience takes its name from the Permian aged Ecca Group in the Karoo Basin, South Africa.

 

The Ecca Group is a broadly shallowing-upward, marine succession where the distal basin plain deposits of the Vischkuil Formation are overlain by basin-floor fan deposits of the Laingsburg Formation. The overlying submarine slope succession of the Fort Brown Formation is dominated by channel-levee complexes and entrenched slope valleys. Continued progradation and infill of the basin is characterised by the ~400-m-thick lower Waterford Formation, which comprises a mixed river- and wave-influenced deltaic succession.

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The shallow marine Waterfords Formation and its temporal and spatial changes in the Laingsburg Basin were the focus of George Jones's PhD thesis which can be found here

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