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Page 139
... appears to the N of the road . Ten kilometers from the bottom of Bosua Pass , more Donkerhuk granite is visible to ... appear closer to the road in the north . On farm Donker- huk East , a prominent granite hill on the northern side of ...
... appears to the N of the road . Ten kilometers from the bottom of Bosua Pass , more Donkerhuk granite is visible to ... appear closer to the road in the north . On farm Donker- huk East , a prominent granite hill on the northern side of ...
Page 186
... appears in the SE and is composed of mixtite , dolomite and shale of the Numees Formation of the Gariep Complex overlying the Na- maqualand Complex . The road then approaches a ridge of massive gneiss of the Na- maqualand Complex ...
... appears in the SE and is composed of mixtite , dolomite and shale of the Numees Formation of the Gariep Complex overlying the Na- maqualand Complex . The road then approaches a ridge of massive gneiss of the Na- maqualand Complex ...
Page 252
... appear on the eastern side of the road , and the western ridge is bro- ken at Deka Bay to provide a view of the sea ... appears with the first Karoo Sequence rocks visible in the distance , about 16 km from Khorixas to the NW . These ...
... appear on the eastern side of the road , and the western ridge is bro- ken at Deka Bay to provide a view of the sea ... appears with the first Karoo Sequence rocks visible in the distance , about 16 km from Khorixas to the NW . These ...
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