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Page 81
... sand , and for most of the year surface water is ex- tremely rare . As the sediments are flat - lying and ... sand is generally 80 to 100 m thick , although there are many areas where sand in excess of 300 m has been found . It is often ...
... sand , and for most of the year surface water is ex- tremely rare . As the sediments are flat - lying and ... sand is generally 80 to 100 m thick , although there are many areas where sand in excess of 300 m has been found . It is often ...
Page 98
... Sand Sea - a 34,000 km2 tract of sandy desert lying between about Lüderitz in the S and the Kuiseb River in the central region - is one of the more significant active desert sand and dune accumulations outside the Sahara . Although ...
... Sand Sea - a 34,000 km2 tract of sandy desert lying between about Lüderitz in the S and the Kuiseb River in the central region - is one of the more significant active desert sand and dune accumulations outside the Sahara . Although ...
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... sand masses which now contribute to the Namib Sand Sea . The origin of the Orange River can be traced back to the breakup of Gondwanaland , when , in a humid period during the Cretaceous , erosion was at its peak in central south- ern ...
... sand masses which now contribute to the Namib Sand Sea . The origin of the Orange River can be traced back to the breakup of Gondwanaland , when , in a humid period during the Cretaceous , erosion was at its peak in central south- ern ...
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