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... Karibib Formation of the Swakop Group . The first marble hills can be seen on the southern side of the road some 22 km outside Wilhelmstal and shortly thereafter the mighty Erongo Complex ( see 8.7 ) appears N of the road in the ...
... Karibib Formation of the Swakop Group . The first marble hills can be seen on the southern side of the road some 22 km outside Wilhelmstal and shortly thereafter the mighty Erongo Complex ( see 8.7 ) appears N of the road in the ...
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... Karibib , before the descent into the Namib Desert peneplain commences about 24 km from Karibib . Here a first glimpse of the desert with the Spitzkuppe Mountains ( see 8.29 ) can be made through a gap in the mountains to the N of the ...
... Karibib , before the descent into the Namib Desert peneplain commences about 24 km from Karibib . Here a first glimpse of the desert with the Spitzkuppe Mountains ( see 8.29 ) can be made through a gap in the mountains to the N of the ...
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... Karibib - Omaruru - Uis by Volker Petzel The route from Karibib to Omaruru and further to Uis is 165 km long , and follows a half - circle around the prominent Erongo Mountain . It starts off in rocks of the Central Zone of the Damara ...
... Karibib - Omaruru - Uis by Volker Petzel The route from Karibib to Omaruru and further to Uis is 165 km long , and follows a half - circle around the prominent Erongo Mountain . It starts off in rocks of the Central Zone of the Damara ...
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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