Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 84The Museum, 1981 - Natural history |
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... transgression ; the 30 m shoreline ( GM ) in ' E ' Quarry dates from the middle to late Miocene regression ; the 90 m shoreline represents the climax of the early Pliocene transgression , with a large proportion of the deposits in the ...
... transgression ; the 30 m shoreline ( GM ) in ' E ' Quarry dates from the middle to late Miocene regression ; the 90 m shoreline represents the climax of the early Pliocene transgression , with a large proportion of the deposits in the ...
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... transgression- regression - transgression ' over a prolonged period , rather than a shorter period of ' transgression - stillstand - renewed transgression ' , was the key to the correla- tion of the ' E ' Quarry succession with certain ...
... transgression- regression - transgression ' over a prolonged period , rather than a shorter period of ' transgression - stillstand - renewed transgression ' , was the key to the correla- tion of the ' E ' Quarry succession with certain ...
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... transgression , there is as yet no consensus on the timing and duration of this event . On the basis of evidence from the Mediterranean Basin , Van Couvering et al . ( 1976 ) and Van Couvering & Berggren ( 1977 ) indicate that this ...
... transgression , there is as yet no consensus on the timing and duration of this event . On the basis of evidence from the Mediterranean Basin , Van Couvering et al . ( 1976 ) and Van Couvering & Berggren ( 1977 ) indicate that this ...
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3aS and 3aN acrae Aeolidiella Ampelisca Amphipoda Anyskop assemblage Baard's Quarry Baba Barnard bed 3aS Bergh bicuspidata bone Brink buccal cusp Cape Province Cape Town capensis Catriona Cenozoic cerata coast columbiana correlated Coryphella Cragievarus kitchingi crown height deciduous demissum dentary denticles deposits Diademodon dicynodonts digestive branch distal dorsal early Pliocene evidence Family fauna femur Flabellina fossa fossils genus Giraffa sp giraffids gland groove Hendey Hipparion holotype indicate Langebaanweg Langebaanweg area late Miocene late Tertiary lateral lingual mammals Marcus & Marcus marginal ridge maxilla Mesembriportax mesial mesiodistal middle Miocene Miocene muscle Namaqualand Nyanzachoerus occlusal pereopod phosphatic Pleistocene Pliocene posterior present QSM and PPM radular recorded region represented rhinophores river Robertia rows sea-level sediments separated shorelines Sivatherium slightly South Africa South African Museum south-western Cape species specimens SUID-AFRIKAANSE MUSEUM surface Tankard taxa teeth terrestrial tooth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Varswater Formation ventral vertebrates