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... turn - off to the Matchless Mine , the road has effectively reached the plateau of the Khomas Highland and follows an undulating peneplain with almost no outcrops , apart from cuts in riverbeds , which the road crosses from time to time ...
... turn - off to the Matchless Mine , the road has effectively reached the plateau of the Khomas Highland and follows an undulating peneplain with almost no outcrops , apart from cuts in riverbeds , which the road crosses from time to time ...
Page 188
... turn is overlain by greywacke , quartzite , arkose , limestone and dolomite of the Holgat Sequence . A further 15 km downriver the turn - off to the Auchas Diamond Deposit is reached , where diamonds are mined from Proto - Orange ...
... turn is overlain by greywacke , quartzite , arkose , limestone and dolomite of the Holgat Sequence . A further 15 km downriver the turn - off to the Auchas Diamond Deposit is reached , where diamonds are mined from Proto - Orange ...
Page 255
... turn - off to Twyfelfontein ( see 8.30 ) , Burnt Mountain ( 8.3 ) and the Organ Pipes ( 8.24 ) follows after another 10 km and the road now approaches the main Etendeka lava field , which dominates the view to the W. After the ...
... turn - off to Twyfelfontein ( see 8.30 ) , Burnt Mountain ( 8.3 ) and the Organ Pipes ( 8.24 ) follows after another 10 km and the road now approaches the main Etendeka lava field , which dominates the view to the W. After 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