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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... reworking of a delta top . In the Western Cape , two localities in the Wagen Drift Formation have yielded a number of brachiopods , including Tropidoleptus , Australospirifer , chonetaceans and linguloids , as well as bivalves and ...
... reworking of a delta top . In the Western Cape , two localities in the Wagen Drift Formation have yielded a number of brachiopods , including Tropidoleptus , Australospirifer , chonetaceans and linguloids , as well as bivalves and ...
Page 218
... reworking similar to the present - day Brazos River delta of Texas and the São Francisco delta of Brazil ( Tankard & Barwis 1982 ) . Analysis of the sedimentary facies exposed in Howison's Poort , near Grahamstown ( Fig . 3 ) , shows ...
... reworking similar to the present - day Brazos River delta of Texas and the São Francisco delta of Brazil ( Tankard & Barwis 1982 ) . Analysis of the sedimentary facies exposed in Howison's Poort , near Grahamstown ( Fig . 3 ) , shows ...
Page 220
... 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 number of upward - fining cycles ( Fig . 5 ) . The sandstone units thin ...
... 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 number of upward - fining cycles ( Fig . 5 ) . The sandstone units thin ...
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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