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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... littoral deposits accumulating as the shoreline retreated . The retreat of the sea at this time would seem to have occurred over a fairly short interval ( perhaps well within 5 000 years , if an analogy with the Holocene transgression ...
... littoral deposits accumulating as the shoreline retreated . The retreat of the sea at this time would seem to have occurred over a fairly short interval ( perhaps well within 5 000 years , if an analogy with the Holocene transgression ...
Page 129
... littoral sands of the end of the last interglacial can be identified as such in a number of ways . From a foraminiferal point of view , they contain the greatest number of species in common with extant littoral assemblages around South ...
... littoral sands of the end of the last interglacial can be identified as such in a number of ways . From a foraminiferal point of view , they contain the greatest number of species in common with extant littoral assemblages around South ...
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... littoral parts of the sequence ; these tests lack any substantial carination of the periphery ( see McMillan 1987b , pl . 11 ( figs 10-11 ) ) . The shell from the Cape Town samples is of this type . In contrast , in the Holocene , the ...
... littoral parts of the sequence ; these tests lack any substantial carination of the periphery ( see McMillan 1987b , pl . 11 ( figs 10-11 ) ) . The shell from the Cape Town samples is of this type . In contrast , in the Holocene , the ...
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Agulhas Bank Alexandria Formation Ammonia parkinsoniana d'Orbigny Apertural view Berg River Boltovskoy Brady Bredasdorp Formation calcite Cape Town Cape Town city Cape Town samples Cape Town tests chambers Cushman & Leavitt d'Orbigny earliest Weichselian Eemian to earliest Elphidium advenum Elphidium crispum Linné Elphidium crispum s.1 Elphidium sp Fichtel & Moll figs final whorl Fissurina foraminifera G H Fig Gastropoda Genus Glabratella australensis Haynes Heron-Allen & Earland Hoedjiespunt Holocene holotype Hyalinea balthica illustrated latest Eemian latest Eemian-earliest Weichselian latest Pleistocene littoral Llandudno Loeblich & Tappan marginata Martin Miocene neotype occurs Orange Shelf McMillan ornamentation Oswald Pirow Pararotalia nipponica Asano Pleistocene Unit Pliocene Quinqueloculina Quinqueloculina cf Quinqueloculina dunkerquiana Quinqueloculina isabellei Remarks reworked Rosalina Shelf McMillan 1987b shells shelly sands Side view South African southern African tests specimen sutures test periphery text-fig Town city centre umbilical boss umbilicus Varswater Formation ventral side Ventral view Walker & Jacob west coast