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Gabi Schneider. 9. Excursions The following section of the Roadside Geology Guide provides descriptions of routes ... provide bungalows as well as camp sites . The camps in the national parks can be booked through Namibia Wildlife Resorts ...
Gabi Schneider. 9. Excursions The following section of the Roadside Geology Guide provides descriptions of routes ... provide bungalows as well as camp sites . The camps in the national parks can be booked through Namibia Wildlife Resorts ...
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... provide ample outcrops of shale , as well as the underlying quartzite . Intercalations of finer- and coars- er - grained shale can be observed . The following ascent out of the valley also provides road cuts . To the northeast of the ...
... provide ample outcrops of shale , as well as the underlying quartzite . Intercalations of finer- and coars- er - grained shale can be observed . The following ascent out of the valley also provides road cuts . To the northeast of the ...
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... provides a section through rocks that were deposited during the early rifting stages leading to the formation of the Atlantic Ocean during the break - up of Gondwanaland . Such early rifting is characterised by volcanic activity and the ...
... provides a section through rocks that were deposited during the early rifting stages leading to the formation of the Atlantic Ocean during the break - up of Gondwanaland . Such early rifting is characterised by volcanic activity and the ...
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