Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sedimentation in the Mandawa Basin, coastal Tanzania

This paper concerns the sedimentary successions deposited in the Mandawa Basin after the separation of East and West Gondwana during the subsequent southwards drift of Madagascar in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous times. The aim of this study was to provide more specific details on the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sedimentation and to report mineralogical and petrographical characteristics on the less well documented successions, namely the Kipatimu, Mitole and Nalwehe formations, in the central and northern parts of the Mandawa Basin.