Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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... deposited during a destructional phase . This involved transgressive marine reworking of the delta top ( Fisher et al . 1969 ) . The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise quartz arenites , siltstones and shales arranged in a ...
... deposited during a destructional phase . This involved transgressive marine reworking of the delta top ( Fisher et al . 1969 ) . The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise quartz arenites , siltstones and shales arranged in a ...
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Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum South African Museum. stones were probably deposited by wash - over processes into ... deposits similar to those described from various modern environments ( e.g. Kumar &. Fig . 5. Thin upward - fining ...
Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum South African Museum. stones were probably deposited by wash - over processes into ... deposits similar to those described from various modern environments ( e.g. Kumar &. Fig . 5. Thin upward - fining ...
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... deposited in intertidal flats established during transgressive reworking of an abandoned delta lobe . The Wagen Drift Formation is taken to represent a prograding delta and its shales were deposited in a delta slope environment ...
... deposited in intertidal flats established during transgressive reworking of an abandoned delta lobe . The Wagen Drift Formation is taken to represent a prograding delta and its shales were deposited in a delta slope environment ...
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abbreviated AFRICA articulate brachiopods barrier islands benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES bicuspidata Gould bivalves bivalves and possible Blinkberg Formation Bokkeveld Group Boucot British Museum Natural carbonaceous shales Chonetes Chonetid Community comma 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 namacolus Orbiculoidea overlain paratypes parentheses pedicle valve punctuation salinity sandstones scientific name sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES shoreline shouldered italics siltstone and shale Silurian and Devonian SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM specimens Spiriferid Community Stratigraphic subheadings are shouldered suspension feeders SWARTRUGGENS FORMATION Synonymy Tankard & Barwis taxa Theron thin tidal tidal-flat Touws River trace fossils Trigonoglossa Tropidoleptus sp Upper Devonian upward-fining cycles Wagen Drift Formation wash-over Weltevrede Formation Western Cape Witpoort Formation yielded marine invertebrate