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 220
... shoreline to a linear barrier - beach shoreline ( Johnson 1976 ) . This change must reflect a reduction in the sediment supply to the shore zone and a decrease in the rate of subsidence so that marginal marine processes rework and ...
... shoreline to a linear barrier - beach shoreline ( Johnson 1976 ) . This change must reflect a reduction in the sediment supply to the shore zone and a decrease in the rate of subsidence so that marginal marine processes rework and ...
Page 226
... shoreline . This , in turn , could be broadly correlated with increasing depth and decreasing temperature . Each benthic assemblage was made up of one or more co - existing communities . Benthic assemblages 1 and 2 are interpreted as ...
... shoreline . This , in turn , could be broadly correlated with increasing depth and decreasing temperature . Each benthic assemblage was made up of one or more co - existing communities . Benthic assemblages 1 and 2 are interpreted as ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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