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... Ugab River Valley SW of Outjo . The Ugab River , from its source in eastern Damaraland , follows an almost direct W - SW course to the sea and has incised a broad valley into the Early Tertiary landsurface . The Ugab has a steep ...
... Ugab River Valley SW of Outjo . The Ugab River , from its source in eastern Damaraland , follows an almost direct W - SW course to the sea and has incised a broad valley into the Early Tertiary landsurface . The Ugab has a steep ...
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... Ugab River . The Ugab River is one of the larger ephemeral rivers in Namibia and , with its source between Otavi and Outjo , extends for almost 500 km through part of Damara- land , past the Brandberg , and through a spectacular canyon ...
... Ugab River . The Ugab River is one of the larger ephemeral rivers in Namibia and , with its source between Otavi and Outjo , extends for almost 500 km through part of Damara- land , past the Brandberg , and through a spectacular canyon ...
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... Ugab River . While the landscape is completely dominated by the Brandberg in the SW , the Ugab River terraces are well exposed ahead of the road ( see 8.31 ) , and the view to the E contains the Mitten Fold and Okonyenya Mountain ...
... Ugab River . While the landscape is completely dominated by the Brandberg in the SW , the Ugab River terraces are well exposed ahead of the road ( see 8.31 ) , and the view to the E contains the Mitten Fold and Okonyenya Mountain ...
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