The geology of a portion of south-western Albany

Title: The geology of a portion of south-western Albany
Creator: Meyer, W
Subject: Geology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Silcrete
Subject: Geology, Stratigraphic
Date Issued: 1965
Date: 1965
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:5065
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013371
Description: During 1963 an area was mapped around Sidbury, 23 miles south- west of Grahamstown. The object of the survey was to examine stratigraphic problems, which included the nature of a large occurrence of shale south of Alicedale in a region previously mapped as Witteberg, and the relationship between Silcrete and Calcrete. During the invest igation evidence of the existence of two, possibly three , major thrust-faults and of extensive overfolding to the south was discovered. There is reason to believe, that movement on the Zuurberg Fault was initiated in pre-Cretaceous times, and renewed in the early Cretaceous. The Silcrete is shown to be related to the pattern of presentday drainage. Stone implements found embedded in the Calcrete suggest that it is of Recent age.
Format: 103 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Science, Geology
Language: English
Rights: Meyer, W

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