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... Basin consist of 600 meters of shales with thin limestone layers overlain by shale and sand- stone . In the Huab basin , mid - Permian rocks are represented by purple shales and sandstones . Red , Triassic conglomerates , mudstones ...
... Basin consist of 600 meters of shales with thin limestone layers overlain by shale and sand- stone . In the Huab basin , mid - Permian rocks are represented by purple shales and sandstones . Red , Triassic conglomerates , mudstones ...
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... Basin . The road follows the river and crosses it about 1 km after Doornpoort , and having passed Doornpoort , the road leaves behind the last rocky outcrops . It continues in an in- creasingly flat area , which fringes the Kalahari Basin ...
... Basin . The road follows the river and crosses it about 1 km after Doornpoort , and having passed Doornpoort , the road leaves behind the last rocky outcrops . It continues in an in- creasingly flat area , which fringes the Kalahari Basin ...
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... Basin ( see 8.13 ) . Immediately to the W of the road another Karoo inselberg , Okan- dumondjuwo Mountain , can be seen and just before the Omatako Mountains are reached , Klein Omatako Mountain , also a Karoo inselberg , occurs ...
... Basin ( see 8.13 ) . Immediately to the W of the road another Karoo inselberg , Okan- dumondjuwo Mountain , can be seen and just before the Omatako Mountains are reached , Klein Omatako Mountain , also a Karoo inselberg , occurs ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Namibia from the Archaean to the Cenozoic | 9 |
An overview of the Namibian mineralogy | 23 |
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amphibolites basalts Belt Brandberg Brukkaros calcrete Cenozoic Cenozoic sediments column for route composed conglomerate Craton Cretaceous crossed Damara Damara Granite Damara Orogen Damara Sequence deposits diamond dolerite dolomite dunes Dwyka Formation dykes Erongo Escarpment Etendeka Etjo Fault Fish River Subgroup fossils Geological gneisses Grootfontein Hakos Group Henties Bay hills Hohewarte Complex Huab intruded Kalahari Basin Kalahari Group Karibib Karoo Sequence Keetmanshoop Kuibis Subgroup Kuiseb Formation Kunene landscape layers limestone Lüderitz Maltahöhe marble Mesoproterozoic metamorphic meteorite minerals Mulden Group Namaqualand Namaqualand Complex Namib Desert Namibia Nappe Naukluft northern Nosib Group occur Okahandja Omaruru Orange River Otavi Otavi Group Otjiwarongo outcrops Outjo overlain overlying PALAEOPROTEROZOIC pegmatites peneplain prominent quartz latite quartzite ridge road continues road cuts rocks sand sandstone schist Schwarzrand Subgroup seen Sesfontein shale sills Sinclair Sequence Spitzkuppe Swakop Group Swakopmund terrane underlain thrust Tsondab Tsumeb Tsumeb Subgroup turn-off Ugab underlain by Cenozoic valley volcanic Windhoek Zone