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Forest Sandstone

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The formation is a sedimentary unit, consisting mainly of aeolian sands and silts with interbedded fluvial sediments, laid down during a period of increasing aridity.
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Nyambe, Imasiku A.; Utting, John (1997). "Stratigraphy and palynostratigraphy, Karoo Supergroup (Permian and Triassic), mid-Zambezi Valley, southern Zambia".
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Catuneanu, O.; Wopfner, H.; Eriksson, P.G.; Cairncross, B.; Rubidge, B.S.; Smith, R.M.H.; Hancox, P.J. (2005). "The Karoo basins of south-central Africa".
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M.A. Raath (1972). "Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Triassic-Jurassic boundary".
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Bordy, Emese M.; Catuneanu, Octavian (2001). "Sedimentology of the upper Karoo fluvial strata in the Tuli Basin, South Africa".
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d'Engelbronner, E.R. (1996). "New palynological data from Karoo sediments, Mana Pools basin, northern Zimbabwe".
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Rogers, Raymond R.; Rogers, Kristina Curry; Munyikwa, Darlington; Terry, Rebecca C.; Bradley s.Singer (2004).
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Danielsen, Jens E.; Dahlin, Torleif; Owen, Richard; Mangeya, Pride; Auken, Esben (2007).
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The Forest Sandstone is the major groundwater-bearing unit of the Upper Karoo Group.
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Larsen, Flemming; R. Owen; T. Dahlin; P. Mangeya; G. Barmen (2002).
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The Forest Sandstone is the penultimate formation in the
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Hettangian
Sinemurian
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Dune beds
Hurungwe District
Zimbabwe
Geological formation
Karoo Supergroup
Upper Karoo Group
Batoka Formation
Pebbly Arkose Formation
Sandstone
Coordinates
20°00′S 28°24′E / 20.0°S 28.4°E / -20.0; 28.4
Approximate paleocoordinates
35°00′S 5°06′E / 35.0°S 5.1°E / -35.0; 5.1

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