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... Brukkaros by Volker Lorenz Gross Brukkaros is an impressive inselberg in southern Namibia , located about 40 km west of the village of Tses . The mountain has a basal diame- ter of 7 km and a ... Brukkaros forms a Brandberg 51 2 Brukkaros.
... Brukkaros by Volker Lorenz Gross Brukkaros is an impressive inselberg in southern Namibia , located about 40 km west of the village of Tses . The mountain has a basal diame- ter of 7 km and a ... Brukkaros forms a Brandberg 51 2 Brukkaros.
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... Brukkaros rises on top of a large uplifted circular area where reddish - brown , hard sandstones and shales of the Fish River Subgroup , Nama Group , are exposed ( Fig . 8.2.1 ) . They first dip away from Brukkaros and closer to it dip ...
... Brukkaros rises on top of a large uplifted circular area where reddish - brown , hard sandstones and shales of the Fish River Subgroup , Nama Group , are exposed ( Fig . 8.2.1 ) . They first dip away from Brukkaros and closer to it dip ...
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... Brukkaros about 650 m of Kalahari , Karoo and Nama beds were eroded in several stages , unlike the extremely hard silicified Brukkaros beds which were originally laid down in a crater below the sur- face . At the highest elevation of ...
... Brukkaros about 650 m of Kalahari , Karoo and Nama beds were eroded in several stages , unlike the extremely hard silicified Brukkaros beds which were originally laid down in a crater below the sur- face . At the highest elevation of ...
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Namibia from the Archaean to the Cenozoic | 9 |
An overview of the Namibian mineralogy | 23 |
Present mineral production and exploration | 29 |
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amphibolites basalts Belt Brandberg Brukkaros calcrete Cenozoic Cenozoic sediments column for route composed conglomerate Craton Cretaceous crossed 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