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... produced smoothly rounded hills displaying the typical onion - skin weathering . The granite , crosscut by pegmatite ... produces various types of fine aggregates from locally quarried marbles . On the western side of the town the road ...
... produced smoothly rounded hills displaying the typical onion - skin weathering . The granite , crosscut by pegmatite ... produces various types of fine aggregates from locally quarried marbles . On the western side of the town the road ...
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... produced . The most prominent rock type outcropping along the road through the Otavi Valley is the intensely silicified dolomite of the lower Elandshoek Formation , which is weath- ered to produce numerous characteristic pinnacles ...
... produced . The most prominent rock type outcropping along the road through the Otavi Valley is the intensely silicified dolomite of the lower Elandshoek Formation , which is weath- ered to produce numerous characteristic pinnacles ...
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... produced the dunes seen today . The area is known as the Mangetti , due to the abundance of Mangetti trees ( Sclerocarya birrea ) , which commonly occur along the dune crests . A large river valley is crossed approximately 5 km before ...
... produced the dunes seen today . The area is known as the Mangetti , due to the abundance of Mangetti trees ( Sclerocarya birrea ) , which commonly occur along the dune crests . A large river valley is crossed approximately 5 km before ...
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