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... Tsondab Rivers are comparatively small , ephemeral drainages that rise S and E , as well as out of the Naukluft Mountains and cut westwards across the Namib Desert to end in terminal pans within the main Namib Sand Sea . In recent ...
... Tsondab Rivers are comparatively small , ephemeral drainages that rise S and E , as well as out of the Naukluft Mountains and cut westwards across the Namib Desert to end in terminal pans within the main Namib Sand Sea . In recent ...
Page 149
... Tsondab sandstone . This Ter- tiary sediment , with its thick calcrete capping , can be observed to the S of the road . There are isolated mountains in the W , which are composed of Kuiseb schist and gran- ite intrusive into the schist ...
... Tsondab sandstone . This Ter- tiary sediment , with its thick calcrete capping , can be observed to the S of the road . There are isolated mountains in the W , which are composed of Kuiseb schist and gran- ite intrusive into the schist ...
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... Tsondab River Dieprivier Tsauchab River Sesriem Naukluf Zarishoogte Pass Maltahöhe Namib Desert DAMARA SEQUENCE : Fish River Subgroup , Nama Group Kuibis and Schwarzrand Subroups , Nama Group Naukluft Nappe Complex Kuiseb Formation ...
... Tsondab River Dieprivier Tsauchab River Sesriem Naukluf Zarishoogte Pass Maltahöhe Namib Desert DAMARA SEQUENCE : Fish River Subgroup , Nama Group Kuibis and Schwarzrand Subroups , Nama Group Naukluft Nappe Complex Kuiseb Formation ...
Contents
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