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Overlying the Wagen Drift Formation is the Blinkberg Formation , an extremely mature quartz arenite unit , which contains ... a thick sequence of white - weathering quartz arenites with thin shale partings and containing plant fossils .
Overlying the Wagen Drift Formation is the Blinkberg Formation , an extremely mature quartz arenite unit , which contains ... a thick sequence of white - weathering quartz arenites with thin shale partings and containing plant fossils .
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The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise 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 ...
The upper 70 m of the Weltevrede Formation comprise 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 ...
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The quartz arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous ... the Wagen Drift Formation represents the subaqueous portion of a delta and that the overlying quartz arenites of the ...
The quartz arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous ... the Wagen Drift Formation represents the subaqueous portion of a delta and that the overlying quartz arenites of the ...
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abbreviated according articulate brachiopods association author's name authors Barwis bedding benthic assemblages 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 feeders figures gastropod given homalonotid Howison's Poort illustrations inarticulate indicate infaunal interpreted intertidal italics known letters Lingula localities lower major marine marine invertebrates mark Member Middle mould Museum Natural History nearshore Note occur original placed plant fossils Plectonotus possible 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 Tropidoleptus sp unit upper valve Wagen Drift Formation Weltevrede Formation Western Cape Witpoort Formation Witteberg Group yielded Zoophycos