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Page 157
... follows the Tsondab River , there are abundant outcrops of calcrete . After another 5 km , the road is close to the southern fringe of a fairly wide valley , and the slopes of the mountains to the S contain a variety of lithologies ...
... follows the Tsondab River , there are abundant outcrops of calcrete . After another 5 km , the road is close to the southern fringe of a fairly wide valley , and the slopes of the mountains to the S contain a variety of lithologies ...
Page 158
... follows the road to the W , and these provide for limited relief in the other- wise monotonous landscape . Some road cuts , in which intercalations of fine - grained and coarser - grained material can be observed , do occur near these ...
... follows the road to the W , and these provide for limited relief in the other- wise monotonous landscape . Some road cuts , in which intercalations of fine - grained and coarser - grained material can be observed , do occur near these ...
Page 238
... follows this ridge for a couple of kilometers and then crosses back into the Kaross Granite . The road then swings northward and follows the fence of the Etosha Game Park . Most of this stretch is underlain by the Kaross Granite , until ...
... follows this ridge for a couple of kilometers and then crosses back into the Kaross Granite . The road then swings northward and follows the fence of the Etosha Game Park . Most of this stretch is underlain by the Kaross Granite , until ...
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