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| Image number: | 1244 |
| Feature : | fault plane |
| Grouping : | tectonics |
| Discipline : | geology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Durban |
| Country : | South-Africa |
| Region - tribe : | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Physiographic region : | South-East Africa |
| Notice : | notice Exhumed part of the Springfield fault, which originated at the breaking up of the Gondwana supercontinent. Vitrified fault plane. The present-day fault step or fault scarp morphology results from the exhumation. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 1244. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |