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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... siltstone and shale with interbedded sandstones . Hiller & Dunlevey ( 1978 ) , working in the Touws River - Montagu area , subdivided that part of the stratigraphy straddling the Bokkeveld Group - Witteberg Group boundary into three ...
... siltstone and shale with interbedded sandstones . Hiller & Dunlevey ( 1978 ) , working in the Touws River - Montagu area , subdivided that part of the stratigraphy straddling the Bokkeveld Group - Witteberg Group boundary into three ...
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... siltstone and shale with thin sandstone interbeds , and containing plant fossils and Zoophycos traces . The top of the Weltevrede Subgroup is occupied by the Witpoort Formation , a thick sequence of white - weathering quartz arenites ...
... siltstone and shale with thin sandstone interbeds , and containing plant fossils and Zoophycos traces . The top of the Weltevrede Subgroup is occupied by the Witpoort Formation , a thick sequence of white - weathering quartz arenites ...
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... 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 bedding are common ...
... 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 bedding are common ...
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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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