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... covered by much younger rocks of Damaran age . Good outcrops of the Ho- hewarte Complex rocks occur in a road cut 1 km S of Aris . Before the intrusion of the comparatively young phonolites and trachytes , granitic mag- mas invaded the ...
... covered by much younger rocks of Damaran age . Good outcrops of the Ho- hewarte Complex rocks occur in a road cut 1 km S of Aris . Before the intrusion of the comparatively young phonolites and trachytes , granitic mag- mas invaded the ...
Page 172
... covered by the calcrete - cemented conglomerate and coarse scree of the Weissrand Formation , Kalahari Group , of Lower Tertiary age , which dips slight- ly to the NE where it disappears under red Kalahari dunes . The prominent dune ...
... covered by the calcrete - cemented conglomerate and coarse scree of the Weissrand Formation , Kalahari Group , of Lower Tertiary age , which dips slight- ly to the NE where it disappears under red Kalahari dunes . The prominent dune ...
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... covered country is generally flat . On the way to Tsumeb , road C42 crosses several synclinal and anticlinal axes , thus traversing repeatedly Otavi Group stratigraphy , which is , however , mostly covered by sand and calcrete . The ...
... covered country is generally flat . On the way to Tsumeb , road C42 crosses several synclinal and anticlinal axes , thus traversing repeatedly Otavi Group stratigraphy , which is , however , mostly covered by sand and calcrete . The ...
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