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Upper Karoo Group

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Type
  
Geological group

Overlies
  
Lower Karoo Group

Primary
  
Sandstone

Unit of
  
Karoo Supergroup

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Other
  
Basalt, siltstone, mudstone

Country
  
Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The Upper Karoo Group is a sequence of Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks found in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

It comprises the Escarpment Grit formation (in the Mid-Zambezi and Limpopo basins) and the Angwa Sandstone Formation (in the Mana Pools and Cabora Bassa Basins), overlain by the Pebbly Arkose Formation and the Forest Sandstone Formation, capped by Batoka Formation basalts.

References

Upper Karoo Group Wikipedia