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The lower , Nougaspoort Member , consists of dirty white , red - weathering , unevenly bedded , quartz arenites separated by thin beds of laminated siltstone . The sandstones show occasional cross - bedding and contain numerous examples ...
The lower , Nougaspoort Member , consists of dirty white , red - weathering , unevenly bedded , quartz arenites separated by thin beds of laminated siltstone . The sandstones show occasional cross - bedding and contain numerous examples ...
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This in turn , is overlain by the Swartruggens Formation , a relatively thick heterolithic unit comprising siltstone and shale with thin sandstone interbeds , and containing plant fossils and Zoophycos traces . The top of the Weltevrede ...
This in turn , is overlain by the Swartruggens Formation , a relatively thick heterolithic unit comprising siltstone and shale with thin sandstone interbeds , and containing plant fossils and Zoophycos traces . The top of the Weltevrede ...
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The quartz arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous shales with silty layers , siderite nodules and numerous plant fragments . These probably formed in stagnant back ...
The quartz arenite sequence is interrupted by the development of thin ( 1 m thick ) dark grey to black carbonaceous shales with silty layers , siderite nodules and numerous plant fragments . These probably formed in stagnant back ...
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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