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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... quartz arenites with thin shale partings and containing plant fossils . In the Eastern Cape the lateral equivalent ... quartz arenite units , two of which have been accorded member status . At the base of the formation the Driekuilen ...
... quartz arenites with thin shale partings and containing plant fossils . In the Eastern Cape the lateral equivalent ... quartz arenite units , two of which have been accorded member status . At the base of the formation the Driekuilen ...
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... quartz arenites , siltstones and shales arranged in a number of upward - fining cycles ( Fig . 5 ) . The sandstone units thin upwards and are overlain by vertical alternations of siltstone and shale in which flaser and lenticular ...
... quartz arenites , siltstones and shales arranged in a number of upward - fining cycles ( Fig . 5 ) . The sandstone units thin upwards and are overlain by vertical alternations of siltstone and shale in which flaser and lenticular ...
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... arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous shales with ... quartz arenites of the Blinkberg Formation are the products of reworking of the delta , much the same as Tankard ...
... arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous shales with ... quartz arenites of the Blinkberg Formation are the products of reworking of the delta , much the same as Tankard ...
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abbreviated AFRICA articulate brachiopods barrier islands basal Witteberg beds benthic assemblages BENTHIC COMMUNITIES Blinkberg Formation Bokkeveld Group Boucot British Museum Natural carbonaceous shales Chonetes comma cross-bedded delta deposited Devonian rocks environmental External mould facies analysis Falkland Islands fauna 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 Orbiculoidea overlain paratypes parentheses pedicle valve Plectonotus sp punctuation quartz arenite unit registration number ripple cross-laminated sandstone Roman numerals salinity sandstones scientific name sediment SEDIMENTARY FACIES shoreline siltstone and shale Silurian and Devonian SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM specimens Spiriferid 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 vicinity of Touws volume number Wagen Drift Formation wash-over WELTEVREDE FORMATION Fig Western Cape yielded marine invertebrate
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| Title | Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Volume 99, Issue 7 of Annals of the South African Museum, South African Museum |
| Author | 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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