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| Image number: | 1332 |
| Feature : | pan |
| Grouping : | water table |
| Discipline : | hydrogeology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Kathu pan |
| Country : | South-Africa |
| Region - tribe : | Northern Cape |
| Physiographic region : | Vaal & Orange River basin |
| Notice : | notice Oasis. Water percolates over the top of the impervious basement rocks below the Kalahari sand sea and resurges where the sand sheet is thin and the top of the basement forms a local underground collector. Vegetation is hardly denser close to the pan. The reason is the low capillary rise of water in the sands |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 1332. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |