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... underlain by Cenozoic surficial sediments . Just before the bridge over this riv- er , immediately to the W of Maltahöhe , the road cuts through massive red sandstone of the lower Fish River Subgroup . Maltahöhe is underlain by these ...
... underlain by Cenozoic surficial sediments . Just before the bridge over this riv- er , immediately to the W of Maltahöhe , the road cuts through massive red sandstone of the lower Fish River Subgroup . Maltahöhe is underlain by these ...
Page 236
... underlain by Huab Complex lithologies . This moun- tain range is reached 44 ... Cenozoic sediments . Some 23 km N of the first mountain range , a second ... Cenozoic sediments , the northernmost anticline becomes visible on the horizon ...
... underlain by Huab Complex lithologies . This moun- tain range is reached 44 ... Cenozoic sediments . Some 23 km N of the first mountain range , a second ... Cenozoic sediments , the northernmost anticline becomes visible on the horizon ...
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... underlain by schist of the Kuiseb Formation and , occasionally , marble of the Karibib Formation . It soon crosses an area underlain by Cenozoic sediments deposited by the Omaruru Riv- er , and the landscape , apart from the ever ...
... underlain by schist of the Kuiseb Formation and , occasionally , marble of the Karibib Formation . It soon crosses an area underlain by Cenozoic sediments deposited by the Omaruru Riv- er , and the landscape , apart from the ever ...
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