An overview of the Permian (Karoo) coal deposits of ...
Jan 01, 2001· The lithologies that contain the coal deposits are Permian in age and assigned to the Karoo Supergroup (SACS, 1980; Johnson et al., 1996), and Karootype deposits are known from all of the countries described in this paper ().The Karoo basin in South Africa is regarded as the typelocality for the southern African coals (Cadle et al., 1993).This is somewhat misleading because although the ...