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| Image number: | 1316 |
| Feature : | river tufa |
| Grouping : | karst, caves, chemical deposits |
| Discipline : | geomorphology |
| Year : | 1999 |
| Locality : | Kuruman |
| Country : | South-Africa |
| Region - tribe : | Northern Cape |
| Physiographic region : | Vaal & Orange River basin |
| Notice : | notice River tufa are chemical precipitates attributed in this case to warmer-wetter periods in the geological past. The tufa lean against the escarpemnt or cliff, visible in the right of the picture. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1999 Image 1316. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |