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... Overlying the shales and the locally pre- served Dwyka beds and forming the steep upper cliffs are the Brukkaros beds , a series of sediments of fluvial and lacustrine origin . These sedi- ments yield plant fossils , which assign them a ...
... Overlying the shales and the locally pre- served Dwyka beds and forming the steep upper cliffs are the Brukkaros beds , a series of sediments of fluvial and lacustrine origin . These sedi- ments yield plant fossils , which assign them a ...
Page 54
... overlying Nama and Karoo beds ( Kurzlaukis 1994 ) . This uplift caused radial fissuring of the large up - domed area and allowed carbonatite magma to be emplaced within fissures and dykes . At those localities where the hot magma inter ...
... overlying Nama and Karoo beds ( Kurzlaukis 1994 ) . This uplift caused radial fissuring of the large up - domed area and allowed carbonatite magma to be emplaced within fissures and dykes . At those localities where the hot magma inter ...
Page 185
... overlying gneisses of the Na- maqualand Complex , dominates . It is in this area that some of the oldest fossils known on Earth were found in sediments of the Nama Group ( see 5. ) . Rocks of the Nama Group were deposited in a shallow ...
... overlying gneisses of the Na- maqualand Complex , dominates . It is in this area that some of the oldest fossils known on Earth were found in sediments of the Nama Group ( see 5. ) . Rocks of the Nama Group were deposited in a shallow ...
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