Structural Inheritance Controls Strain Distribution During Early Continental Rifting, Rukwa Rift by Folarin Kolawole, Folarin Kolawole, Thomas B. Phillips, Estella A. Atekwana, Christopher A.-L. Jackson

“…We utilize aeromagnetic data that image the Precambrian Chisi Shear Zone (CSZ) and bounding terranes, and interpretations of 2-D seismic reflection data to show that, during the earliest rift phase (Permo-Triassic ‘Karoo’): 1) the rift was defined by the Lupa border fault, which exploited colinear basement terrane boundaries, and a prominent intra-basinal fault cluster (329° ± 9.6) that trends parallel to and whose location was controlled by the CSZ (326°); 2) extensional strain in the NW section of the rift was accommodated by both the intra-basinal fault cluster and the border fault, where the intra-basinal faulting account for up to 64% of extension; in the SE where the CSZ is absent, strain is primarily focused on the Lupa Fault. …”
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MID-Radio Telescope, Single Pixel Feed Packages for the Square Kilometer Array: An Overview by Alice Pellegrini, Jonas Flygare, Isak P. Theron, Robert Lehmensiek, Adriaan Peens-Hough, Jamie Leech, Michael E. Jones, Angela C. Taylor, Robert E. J. Watkins, Lei Liu, Andre Hector, Biao Du, Yang Wu

“…In the fully deployed state, the MID-Telescope consists of a 150-km diameter array of offset Gregorian antennas installed in the radio quiet zone of the Karoo desert (South Africa). Each antenna is equipped with three feed packages, that are precision positioned in the sub-reflector focus by a feed indexer platform. …”
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Corpos hipabissais correlacionados à Formação Serra Geral na região do Cerro do Coronel, RS: geologia e petrologia by Carla Cecília Treib Sarmento, Carlos Augusto Sommer, Evandro Fernandes de Lima, Diego Skieresz de Oliveira

“…As características dos elementos maiores, elementos-traço e elementos terras raras são compatíveis com as apresentadas para magmatismo vinculado a grandes províncias basálticas continentais, como Províncias do Deccan Traps, Paraná-Etendeka, Columbia River, Siberian Traps e Karoo. Estas rochas apresentam concentrações de TiO2 inferiores a 2%, mostrando uma tendência para o magma-tipo Esmeralda da Província Magmática do Paraná.…”
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Finding the key to success: A visitors' perspective at a National Arts Festival by M. Saayman, M. Kruger, J. Erasmus

“…Purpose and/or objectives: The purpose of this article was to segment festival visitors at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) based on their travel motives and their ratings of the Key Success Factors (KSFs) in terms of their festival experience. …”
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Climatic and topographic changes since the Miocene influenced the diversification and biogeography of the tent tortoise (Psammobates tentorius) species complex in Southern Africa by Zhongning Zhao, Neil Heideman, Phillip Bester, Adriaan Jordaan, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr

“…The distribution of Psammobates tentorius (Kuhl, 1820) covers two of the 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world, the Succulent Karoo and Cape Floristic Region. The highly diverged P. tentorius represents an excellent model species for exploring biogeographic and radiation patterns of reptiles in Southern Africa. …”
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Triassic pentadactyl tracks from the Los Menucos Group (Río Negro province, Patagonia Argentina): possible constraints on the autopodial posture of Gondwanan trackmakers by Paolo Citton, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Silvina de Valais, Carlos Cónsole-Gonella

“…The footprints under study are compared with Pentasauropus from the Upper Triassic lower Elliot Formation (Stormberg Group) of the Karoo Basin (Lesotho, southern Africa). Some track features suggest a therapsid-grade synapsid as the potential trackmaker, to be sought among anomodont dicynodonts (probably Kannemeyeriiformes). …”
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SILLi 1.0: a 1-D numerical tool quantifying the thermal effects of sill intrusions by K. Iyer, K. Iyer, H. Svensen, D. W. Schmid, D. W. Schmid

“…The model is accompanied by three case studies of sills emplaced in two different sedimentary basins, the Karoo Basin in South Africa and the Vøring Basin off the shore of Norway. …”
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Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XLIX. Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting white and black rhinoceroses in southern Africa by Ivan G. Horak, Christiaan R. Boshoff, David V. Cooper, Christoper M. Foggin, Danny Govender, Alan Harrison, Guy Hausler, Markus Hofmeyr, J. Werner Kilian, Duncan N. MacFadyen, Pierre J. Nel, Dean Peinke, David Squarre, David Zimmermann

“…The species present on rhinos in the eastern, moister reserves of South Africa were amongst others Amblyomma hebraeum, A. rhinocerotis, D. rhinocerinus, Rhipicephalus maculatus, Rhipicephalus simus and Rhipicephalus zumpti, while those on rhinos in the Karoo and the drier western regions, including Namibia, were the drought-tolerant species, Hyalomma glabrum, Hyalomma rufipes, Hyalomma truncatum and Rhipicephalus gertrudae. …”
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Pb–Pb baddeleyite ages of mafic dyke swarms from the Dharwar Craton: Implications for Paleoproterozoic LIPs and diamond potential of mantle keel by D. Srinivasa Sarma, V. Parashuramulu, M. Santosh, E. Nagaraju, N. Ramesh Babu

“…Kimberlite occurrences elsewhere in the vicinity of older Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) like the Mackenzie, Karoo, Parana-Etendeka and Yakutsk-Vilui are also non-diamondiferous. …”
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The tectonic development of the Central African Plateau: evidence from shear-wave splitting by Kounoudis, R, Kendall, J-M, Ogden, CS, Fishwick, S, Chifwepa, C, Daly, MC

“…Major upper-crustal deformation and complex craton margin fault zones reflect the region’s diverse tectonic history: rifting during the Neoproterozoic, collision during the Pan-African orogeny, and more recently, Permo-Triassic Karoo rifting and the Pliocene development of the Southwestern branch of the East African Rift. …”

Leopards and mesopredators as indicators of mammalian species richness across diverse landscapes of South Africa by Thulani Tshabalala, Jeannine McManus, Adrian Treves, Vusani Masocha, Steve Faulconbridge, Matthew Schurch, Stefan Goets, Bool Smuts

“…The mammalian species richness was highest in the Orange River Nama Karoo vegetation type and in privately owned game reserves. …”
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Analytical and statistical approaches toward understanding sedimentation in siliciclastic depositional systems by Carlson, Jennifer (Jennifer Beth), 1970-

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Both Alpha- and Beta-Rhizobia Occupy the Root Nodules of Vachellia karroo in South Africa by Chrizelle W. Beukes, Francois S. Boshoff, Francina L. Phalane, Ahmed I. Hassen, Marianne M. le Roux, Marianne M. le Roux, Tomasz Stȩpkowski, Stephanus N. Venter, Emma T. Steenkamp

“…We also show for the first time that members of this genus can associate with legumes, not only in the Fynbos biome, but also in the Albany Thicket and Succulent Karoo biomes. Twenty-six putative species were delineated among the 88 isolates, many of which appeared to be new to Science with other likely being conspecific or closely related to E. alkalisoli, M. abyssinicae, M. shonense, and P. tropica. …”
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Early land plant remains from the uppermost Ordovician–?lowermost Silurian Cedarberg Formation of South Africa by Charles H. Wellman, Cameron R. Penn-Clarke, Claire Browning

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Evolution of Tandem Repeats Is Mirroring Post-polyploid Cladogenesis in Heliophila (Brassicaceae) by Mert Dogan, Mert Dogan, Milan Pouch, Milan Pouch, Terezie Mandáková, Terezie Mandáková, Petra Hloušková, Xinyi Guo, Pieter Winter, Zuzana Chumová, Adriaan Van Niekerk, Klaus Mummenhoff, Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, Ladislav Mucina, Ladislav Mucina, Martin A. Lysak, Martin A. Lysak

“…The tribe is endemic to southern Africa, confined chiefly to the southwestern South Africa, home of two biodiversity hotspots (Cape Floristic Region and Succulent Karoo). The monospecific Chamira (C. circaeoides), the only crucifer species with persistent cotyledons, is traditionally retrieved as the closest relative of Heliophileae. …”
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Major, trace element and Sr-Nd isotope evidence for a sublithospheric mantle source for the Umkondo large igneous province by Ben Hayes, Lewis D. Ashwal, Khulekani B. Khumalo, Linda M. Iaccheri

“…There is also a paucity of high-Ti rocks in the Umkondo province that may reflect limited direct melting of the lithospheric mantle or that they are simply not as well-preserved in this province compared to the Karoo province. The similar trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions of the Umkondo sills in southern Africa with the Borgmassivet sills in Antarctica support the concept that the Kalahari craton and Grunehogna terrane were adjoined at 1.11 Ga. …”
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Sedimentary Basins of the Republic of Yemen : Their Structural Evolution and Geological Characteristics Evolution structurelle et caractéristiques géologiques des bassins sédimenta... by Beydoun Z. R., As-Saruri M. L., Baraba R. S.

“…All the tectonic activity is linked to Gondwanan fragmentation and breakup from the initial closure of the paleo-Tethys and opening of the neo-Tethys in late Carboniferous to Permian times, and the development of the African Karoo system, through separation of India from Afro-Arabia in the Cretaceous to ultimate separation of Arabia from Africa in the Neogene. …”
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MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn-mass Planet within Predicted Desert by Greg Olmschenk, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung, Jennifer C. Yee, Etienne Bachelet, Leading authors, Fumio Abe, Richard K. Barry, Aparna Bhattacharya, Hirosane Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Yoshitaka Itow, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Naoki Koshimoto, Yutaka Matsubara, Sho Matsumoto, Shota Miyazaki, Brandon Munford, Yasushi Muraki, Arisa Okamura, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, Takahiro Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Taiga Toda, Paul J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, The MOA Collaboration, Michael D. Albrow, Sang-Mok Cha, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Dong-Jin Kim, Hyoun-Woo Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, The KMTNet Collaboration, Grant Christie, Tony Cooper, John Drummond, Jonathan Green, Steve Hennerley, Jennie McCormick, L. A. G. Monard, Tim Natusch, Ian Porritt, Thiam-Guan Tan, The MicroFUN Collaboration, Shude Mao, Dan Maoz, Matthew T. Penny, Wei Zhu, The MAP Follow-Up Collaboration, V. Bozza, Arnaud Cassan, Martin Dominik, Markus Hundertmark, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. Kruszyńska, K. A. Rybicki, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras, Joachim Wambsganss, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. Zieliński, The OMEGA Collaboration, Gioia Rau

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AIZOACEAE by V. Bittrich

“…A NEW SPECIES OF  GALENIA FROM THE GREAT KAROO…”
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PROTEACEAE by J. P. Rourke

“…A NEW SPECIES OF LEUCADENDRON FROM THE WESTERN LITTLE KAROO…”
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