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Geological map of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay Geological section of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town lies at the south-western corner of the continent of Africa. It is bounded to the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the north and east by various other municipalities in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The Stormberg Group is composed of three main geological formations that are found in numerous localities across Lesotho and in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape provinces in South Africa. These formations are listed below (from oldest to youngest): Molteno Formation; Elliot Formation; Clarens Formation
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.
Table Mountain seen from Signal Hill, across the Cape Town city bowl. The portion of the mountain made up of Table Mountain Sandstone is indicated on the right. [1] It is this mountain that has given its name to the geological structure that occurs in the mountains throughout the Western Cape
Karoo National Park near Beaufort West, Western Cape Province, South Africa. The geological formations of the Beaufort Group are outcrop over approximately 145 000 km 2, attaining a total thickness of around 6000 m thick at its thickest outcrops. In the west, the lowermost Beaufort Group rocks are found east of Laingsburg and remain continuous ...
The Cape orogeny formed the Cape Fold Belt and the mountains that range along the Cape and the southern parts of South Africa. [3] An additional geological formation, the Msikaba Formation, found north of Port St. Johns in the Eastern Cape is considered to correlate with the Witteberg Group of the Cape Supergroup. [4]
South Africa portal; Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Botswana; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Lesotho; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Madagascar; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mozambique; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Namibia
Stratigraphic units in this group include (from oldest to youngest): Enon Formation: Contains subordinate sandstones and different types of thickly-bedded conglomerates, which consist mainly of quartzite and sometimes slate, shale, and charcoal. The clasts are poorly-sorted, sub-rounded to rounded pebbles and cobbles.