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... hills displaying the typical onion - skin weathering . The granite , crosscut by pegmatite dykes , is exposed in a road cut some 15 km outside Okahandja . Thereafter a number of granite hills can be seen in the distance on the northern ...
... hills displaying the typical onion - skin weathering . The granite , crosscut by pegmatite dykes , is exposed in a road cut some 15 km outside Okahandja . Thereafter a number of granite hills can be seen in the distance on the northern ...
Page 165
... hills composed of basement rocks . Towards the SW , the Nubibberge , after which the Nubib Granite is named , be- come visible , while towards the SE , the lower hills are composed of metamorphic rocks of the Neuhof Formation . The ...
... hills composed of basement rocks . Towards the SW , the Nubibberge , after which the Nubib Granite is named , be- come visible , while towards the SE , the lower hills are composed of metamorphic rocks of the Neuhof Formation . The ...
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... hills of Karoo sediments capped by Karoo dolerite . The town of Karasburg is underlain by migmatitic quartz - feldspar - biotite gneiss of the Namaqualand Complex . E of Karasburg , the road descends slightly and once more tra- verses ...
... hills of Karoo sediments capped by Karoo dolerite . The town of Karasburg is underlain by migmatitic quartz - feldspar - biotite gneiss of the Namaqualand Complex . E of Karasburg , the road descends slightly and once more tra- verses ...
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