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Page 146
... marked turn to the W , in an area that is underlain by young sediments on the farm Göllschau . The prominent Kamelberg mountains to the S are composed of amphibolites of the Elim Formation and along the Kamelberg thrust to the SE , the ...
... marked turn to the W , in an area that is underlain by young sediments on the farm Göllschau . The prominent Kamelberg mountains to the S are composed of amphibolites of the Elim Formation and along the Kamelberg thrust to the SE , the ...
Page 175
... marked by the contact between the Inachab Member and the underlying Haseweb Member . The road then fol- lows a valley that has been deeply incised into the friable cross - bedded sandstones and mud - cracked shale of the Haseweb Member ...
... marked by the contact between the Inachab Member and the underlying Haseweb Member . The road then fol- lows a valley that has been deeply incised into the friable cross - bedded sandstones and mud - cracked shale of the Haseweb Member ...
Page 186
... marked change in lithology towards the SW . The range is composed of gneiss of the Namaqualand Complex in the NE , while in the SW these rocks are over- lain by the basal mixtites of the Numees Formation and the felsites of the Rosh ...
... marked change in lithology towards the SW . The range is composed of gneiss of the Namaqualand Complex in the NE , while in the SW these rocks are over- lain by the basal mixtites of the Numees Formation and the felsites of the Rosh ...
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