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... transgressive conditions produced barrier islands that migrated landwards
over the tidal - fiat facies . The Witpoort Formation consists mostly of mature
sandstones . In the basal 10–12 m these are brownish in colour , fine to medium
grained ...
... transgressive conditions produced barrier islands that migrated landwards
over the tidal - fiat facies . The Witpoort Formation consists mostly of mature
sandstones . In the basal 10–12 m these are brownish in colour , fine to medium
grained ...
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The first of these is well known from the Bokkeveld Group and its Falkland Islands
and South American correlatives . The bivalves are too poorly preserved for even
generic identification . The assemblage is dominated by brachiopods but their ...
The first of these is well known from the Bokkeveld Group and its Falkland Islands
and South American correlatives . The bivalves are too poorly preserved for even
generic identification . The assemblage is dominated by brachiopods but their ...
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For the Malvinokaffric Realm ( a Silurian - Devonian palaeogeographic and
biogeographic realm that included South Africa , the Falkland Islands and South
America south of about 10 ° S ) , Boucot ( 1975 : 18 ) showed that benthic ...
For the Malvinokaffric Realm ( a Silurian - Devonian palaeogeographic and
biogeographic realm that included South Africa , the Falkland Islands and South
America south of about 10 ° S ) , Boucot ( 1975 : 18 ) showed that benthic ...
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abbreviated according AFRICA articulate brachiopods association author's name authors basal bedding benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES bivalves Blinkberg Bokkeveld Group Boucot capital collected communities consists containing cycles delta deposited described Devonian Devonian rocks differences DISTRIBUTARY diversity dominated Eastern environment environmental fauna figures gastropod homalonotid Howison's Poort illustrations inarticulate indicate infaunal interpreted intertidal Islands italics known letters Lingula localities lower major marine marine invertebrates mark Member Middle mould Museum Natural History nearshore Note occur original parentheses placed plant fossils Plectonotus punctuation quartz arenites range recorded references represent reworking salinity sandstones scientific sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES separates sequence shales shallow siltstone similar Smith South African species specimens Stratigraphic subtidal suggest Tables Tankard thick thin Touws River trace fossils trilobite unit upper valve Wagen Drift Formation Weltevrede Formation Western Cape Witpoort Formation Witteberg Group yielded Zoophycos