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Page 140
... landscape towards the Swakop River Valley can be well appreciated to the NW of the road for the next 20 km ... landscape . The turn - off to Blutkuppe to the N is reached 24 km after entering the Namib Naukluft Park , in an otherwise ...
... landscape towards the Swakop River Valley can be well appreciated to the NW of the road for the next 20 km ... landscape . The turn - off to Blutkuppe to the N is reached 24 km after entering the Namib Naukluft Park , in an otherwise ...
Page 141
... landscape looses relief and there are no further outcrops , although run - off patterns towards the Swakop River drainage are very apparent . After some 12 km there is a turn - off to the N to the so - called " Moon Landscape " . The ...
... landscape looses relief and there are no further outcrops , although run - off patterns towards the Swakop River drainage are very apparent . After some 12 km there is a turn - off to the N to the so - called " Moon Landscape " . The ...
Page 175
... landscape re- mains flat although numerous small rivers cross the road , which dewater eastwards in- to the Kaseweb River . Further on , the valley narrows and the scenary is dominated in the E by the Schwarzrand Escarpment , with a ...
... landscape re- mains flat although numerous small rivers cross the road , which dewater eastwards in- to the Kaseweb River . Further on , the valley narrows and the scenary is dominated in the E by the Schwarzrand Escarpment , with a ...
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