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A small patch of Pakhuis tillite occurs on the top of Table Mountain at Maclear's beacon, [1] but most of the Pakhuis Formation is found as a thin layer (on average only about 60 m thick [5]) in the Table Mountain Sandstone Formation of the more inland mountains to the west of a line between Swellendam and Calvinia. [5]
Table Mountain is the northernmost end of a 50-kilometre-long (30 mi) and roughly six-to-ten-kilometre-wide (4 to 6 mi) Cape Fold Mountain range that forms the backbone of the Cape Peninsula, stretching from the Cape of Good Hope in the south to Table Mountain and its flanking Devil's Peak (to the east) and Lion's Head and Signal Hill (to the ...
A King Protea growing in Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos in Table Mountain National Park Silver trees (Leucadendron argenteum) growing in Peninsula Granite Fynbos in Table Mountain National Park. This area forms part of the Cape Floristic Region and as such supports a high diversity of flora, much of which is rare and endemic.
The famous Table Mountain forms part of the Cape Fold Belt, being made up of the local lowest (oldest) strata of the Cape Supergroup, composed predominantly of quartzitic sandstone which forms the impressive, almost vertical cliffs which characterize the mountain and the rest of the range which constitutes the backbone of the Cape Peninsula.
Table Mountain. The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts.The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold, diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits.
It divides the Peninsula Formation Sandstone (or Table Mountain Sandstone) (magenta layer) into a Lower and Upper portion. It is the Lower (older) portion that is particularly hard and erosion resistant, and, therefore, forms most of the highest and most conspicuous peaks in the Cederberg and elsewhere in the Western Cape . [ 1 ]
Table Mountain Group: Lithology; Primary: Sandstone, mudstone, siltstone, shale, and conglomerates: Other: Calcite: Location; Region: Western & Eastern Cape: Country South Africa: Type section; Named for: Bokkeveld mountains: Schematic diagram of a west-east (left - right) geological cross section through the Cedarberg portion of the Cape Fold ...
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