The Great Karoo area in South Africa
The Karoo (a Khoisan word of uncertain etymology[1]) is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. It consists of two closely related ecoregions – the Nama Karoo, which has mostly winter rainfall, and the Succulent Karoo which has predominantly summer rain. The Nama Karoo has three main sub-regions – the Upper Karoo in the north – which is divided from the Great Karoo in the middle by the Great Escarpment thus the Upper Karoo rivers flow northwards into the Orange River – and the Little Karoo in the south. The western section is the Succulent Karoo, situated in a winter rainfall region near the Atlantic coast. In geological terms the Karoo Supergroup refers to an extensive and geologically recent (100 to 260 million years old) sequence of sedimentary and igneous rocks, which is flanked to the south by the Cape Supergroup, and to the north by the more ancient Witwatersrand Supergroup. It covers two-thirds of South Africa[n 2] and extends in places to 8,000 m below the land surface, constituting an immense volume of rocks which was formed, geologically speaking, in a short period of time.[2][3]
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Location: The Karoo , South Africa
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