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... reached af- ter another 8 km , just after the tarred road ends . The now abandoned Matchless Mine is one of the oldest mines in Namibia and started production as early as 1852. The old workings are of historic interest and are a ...
... reached af- ter another 8 km , just after the tarred road ends . The now abandoned Matchless Mine is one of the oldest mines in Namibia and started production as early as 1852. The old workings are of historic interest and are a ...
Page 199
... reached , where , apart from the trees and dolerite boulders , well - preserved speci- men of Mesosaurus , a fossil occurring in the Whitehill Formation ( see 5. ) may be ob- served . This lizard - like fossil has , because of a ...
... reached , where , apart from the trees and dolerite boulders , well - preserved speci- men of Mesosaurus , a fossil occurring in the Whitehill Formation ( see 5. ) may be ob- served . This lizard - like fossil has , because of a ...
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... reached 30 km N of Swakopmund . The small bay and the rocky outcrops to the E of the road are composed of a coarse variety of dolerite , the so - called " trout - stone " or troctolite , which has been tested for quarrying ornamen- tal ...
... reached 30 km N of Swakopmund . The small bay and the rocky outcrops to the E of the road are composed of a coarse variety of dolerite , the so - called " trout - stone " or troctolite , which has been tested for quarrying ornamen- tal ...
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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