Editing Cabinda Province (section)

== Geology ==
Two giant [[oil field]]s, the ''Malonga North'' and ''Malonga West'' were discovered in 1967 and 1970, respectively, both [[Pre-salt layer|pre-salt]] or pre-[[Aptian]] producers.<ref name="Dale 1992" />{{rp|198–199}}

Located in water depths of 50 to 75&nbsp;m, oil was discovered in [[Barremian]] deposits in 1971, then the [[Cenomanian]] section in 1979.

Four offshore oil fields, the ''Wamba'', ''Takula'', ''Numbi'' and ''Vuko'', are located in the greater Takula area, producing from the [[Upper Cretaceous]], [[Cenomanian]] Vermelha [[sandstone]] deposited in the coastal environment.<ref name="Dale 1992">Dale, C.T., Lopes, J.R., and Abilio, S., 1992, Takula Oil Field and the Greater Takula Area, Cabinda, Angola, In Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade, 1978–1988, AAPG Memoir 54, Halbouty, M.T., editor, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, {{ISBN|0891813330}}</ref>{{rp|197}}

Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrates, including fossil turtles as ''Cabindachelys''<ref>Myers, T. S., Polcyn M. J., Mateus O., Vineyard D. P., Gonçalves A. O., & Jacobs L. L. (2017).  A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola. Papers in Palaeontology. 2017, 1–16</ref> have been collected from Lândana.