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Image number: | 1328 |
Feature : | boulder slope |
Grouping : | slopes and slope deposits |
Discipline : | geomorphology |
Year : | 1999 |
Locality : | Olifantshoek |
Country : | South-Africa |
Region - tribe : | Northern Cape |
Physiographic region : | Vaal & Orange River basin |
Notice : | notice This is the precambrian substrate on which the Kalahari sand sea rests. A long weathering period gave rise to corestone weathering, producing the subrounded blocks. |
Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 1328. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |