Katavi National Park Katavi National Park Katavi National Park is a Tanzanian national park created in 1974 and is located in Katavi Region, Tanzania. It is a very remote park that is less frequently visited than other Tanzanian national parks. The park is approximately in area, which makes it the third largest national park in Tanzania. The park encompasses the Katuma River and the seasonal Lake Katavi and Lake Chada floodplains. Wildlife features include large animal herds, particularly of Cape Buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, and elephants, plus along the Katuma river, crocodiles and hippopotami which upon annual dry seasons results in mudholes that
Geology of Tanzania fill with sediments, depositing the first rock units of the Karoo Supergroup—the most extensive stratigraphic unit in southern Africa. In the Tanzania region, situated in the interior of Pangaea, the Karoo Supergroup deposited between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Jurassic, with sequences of terrestrial sediments. These sediments formed diverse rock units including sandstones, conglomerates, tillite, shale, red and gray mudstones and periodically, limestone deposits. Many of the Tanzanian Karoo rocks from this period contain plant and animal fossils. With the fragmentation of Pangaea, the modern coastal region of Tanzania experienced a long lasting marine transgression, which deposited limestone, marl,