Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 99, Issue 7West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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STRATIGRAPHY In the Western Cape, the Wagen Drift Formation is the lowest
unit of the Witteberg Group (Fig. 2). It consists ... FORMATION WITPOORT _-_-_-_
-_-_-_- FORMATION SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION {..} marine fossils ...
STRATIGRAPHY In the Western Cape, the Wagen Drift Formation is the lowest
unit of the Witteberg Group (Fig. 2). It consists ... FORMATION WITPOORT _-_-_-_
-_-_-_- FORMATION SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION {..} marine fossils ...
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The top of the Weltevrede Subgroup is occupied by the Witpoort Formation, a
thick sequence of white-weathering quartz arenites with thin shale partings and
containing plant fossils. In the Eastern Cape the lateral equivalent of the Wagen
Drift, ...
The top of the Weltevrede Subgroup is occupied by the Witpoort Formation, a
thick sequence of white-weathering quartz arenites with thin shale partings and
containing plant fossils. In the Eastern Cape the lateral equivalent of the Wagen
Drift, ...
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The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise quartz arenites, siltstones
and shales arranged in a number of ... The change-over from the Weltevrede
Formation to the Witpoort Formation is thought to mark a major change in
shoreline ...
The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise quartz arenites, siltstones
and shales arranged in a number of ... The change-over from the Weltevrede
Formation to the Witpoort Formation is thought to mark a major change in
shoreline ...
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abbreviated articulate brachiopods Australospirifer barrier islands benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES Blinkberg Formation Bokkeveld Group Boucot British Museum Natural bryozoa Chonetes COMMUNITIES AND SEDIMENTARY cross-bedded deeper-water subtidal conditions delta deposited Devonian rocks environmental External mould facies analysis Falkland Islands fauna Formation near Touws Frasnian gastropod genus Givetian Grahamstown high-diversity holotype homalonotid trilobite horizontal lamination Howison's Poort inarticulate infaunal interpreted Leda Lingula lepta LOWER WITTEBERG GROUP Museum Natural History orbiculoid and linguloid Orbiculoidea overlain paratypes parentheses pedicle valve Plectonotus sp possible bryozoa punctuation salinity sandstones scientific name sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES shoreline shouldered italics siltstone and shale Silurian and Devonian South African Museum specimens Stratigraphic STRATIGRAPHY suspension feeders SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION Tankard & Barwis taxa Theron thin tidal tidal-flat Touws River trace fossils Trigonoglossa Tropidoleptus sp Upper Devonian valve of Lingula valve of Tropidoleptus Wagen Drift Formation wash-over Weltevrede Formation Western Cape Witpoort Formation Witteberg Group represent yielded marine invertebrate
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| Title | Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 99, Issue 7 Annals of the South African Museum, South African Museum |
| Contributor | South African Museum |
| Publisher | West, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2016 |
| ISBN | 086813113X, 9780868131139 |
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