Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
From inside the book
Results 1-2 of 2
Page 216
... noted for its invertebrate fossils , although its plant fossils ( Plumstead 1967 , 1969 ) and fish fossils ( Jubb 1965 ; Gardiner 1969 ) are fairly well documented . However , rare marine invertebrates have been recovered from a number ...
... noted for its invertebrate fossils , although its plant fossils ( Plumstead 1967 , 1969 ) and fish fossils ( Jubb 1965 ; Gardiner 1969 ) are fairly well documented . However , rare marine invertebrates have been recovered from a number ...
Page 221
... noted that wash - over is one of the main processes by which barrier islands migrate landward and that scouring associated with wash - over is responsible for the initiation of new tidal inlets . The clean quartz arenites that form the ...
... noted that wash - over is one of the main processes by which barrier islands migrate landward and that scouring associated with wash - over is responsible for the initiation of new tidal inlets . The clean quartz arenites that form the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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