karoo basin造句

• During the Late Permian, sediments were fed into the Karoo Basin from a ring of mountains that encircled Southern Gondwana ( an ancient supercontinent, partly located on what is now South America and Antarctica ) In the Karoo is the Beaufort Group, a subdivision of the basin.
• It is represented by a single species, " "'Crapartinella croucheri " "', that was named from the Karoo Basin of South Africa in 1975 . " Crapartinella " is the only eutheriodont known to have vomerine teeth, a primitive condition among tetrapods.
• During the Early Triassic the Karoo Basin was seasonally arid, so the " Thrinaxodon " may have been aestivating to conserve energy during a time when resource availability was low and the normally aquatic " Broomistega " may have entered to burrow to escape the hot and dry conditions of its environment.
• In the Ellisras Basin, the Dwyka Group ( late Carboniferous to Permian ) at the base of the Karoo System is represented by the Waterkloof Formation, diamictite and other rocks of colluvial and glaciofluvial origin, associated with meltwater or floating ice from the Karoo glaciation that produced the Dwyka Group tillite in the main Karoo Basin.