Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1991 - Natural history |
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... FORMATION , TABLE MOUNTAIN GROUP By RUSSELL W. SHONE Department of Geology , University of Port Elizabeth , Port Elizabeth ( With 12 figures ) [ Paper presented at the Palaeontological Society of southern Africa Symposium , Cape Town ...
... FORMATION , TABLE MOUNTAIN GROUP By RUSSELL W. SHONE Department of Geology , University of Port Elizabeth , Port Elizabeth ( With 12 figures ) [ Paper presented at the Palaeontological Society of southern Africa Symposium , Cape Town ...
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... Formation crops out near Port Elizabeth in the vicinity of Sardinia Bay ( Fig . 1 ) . These strata represent part of ... formed in response to compressional forces directed from the south . There is evidence of a subsequent east - west ...
... Formation crops out near Port Elizabeth in the vicinity of Sardinia Bay ( Fig . 1 ) . These strata represent part of ... formed in response to compressional forces directed from the south . There is evidence of a subsequent east - west ...
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... Formation is believed to have been deposited in a transgressing epeiric sea . Epeiric seas formed by flooding of intracontinental areas may have been quite common in the past . Their extreme shallowness over large areas may have led to ...
... Formation is believed to have been deposited in a transgressing epeiric sea . Epeiric seas formed by flooding of intracontinental areas may have been quite common in the past . Their extreme shallowness over large areas may have led to ...
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abbreviated bioturbated burrow fill callianassid decapods Cape Town Chondrites cm Fig cm in diameter colonization by sediment-dwellers correlation cross-section Cruziana ichnofacies model currents and waves decapods depositional environment Description Differential weathering Diplocraterion disseminated pyrite EARLY ORDOVICIAN SARDINIA Ekdale epeiric sea FACIES INTERPRETATIONS Fascifodina Figure Frey & Pemberton Gastropoda Häntzschel 1975 holotype ichno ichnogenus indicate INNER SHELF MEGARIPPLE INNER SHELF MUD INNERMOST SHELF MUD interval Irregular U-tubes Leda MUD AND SAND Mudrock units namacolus occur Ophiomorpha paper paratypes parentheses Pemberton 1984 Port Elizabeth punctuation quartzite references relict sedimentary structures Restricted biota rocks Roman numerals sandstone sole Sardinia Bay Formation scientific name sediment sediment-dwelling organisms sedimentary structures Seilacher 1967 shafts shallow marine Shone shoreface Skolithos ichnofacies Skolithos tubes sole marking SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Spreiten demarcated sub-horizontal Synonymy Table Mountain Group Thalassinoides tidal currents trace fossil assemblages trace fossil association traces resembling Upper Sardinia Bay V-shaped pattern Vermiform sand-filled tubes vertical burrows