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BLIGNAULT, H.J. and THERON, J.N. (2012). Modes of sedimentation and glaciological aspects of the Permo-Carboniferous Dwyka Group in the Elandsvlei-Elandsdrif area, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 115, 211-224.
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VISSER, J.N.J. (1990). Glacial bedforms at the base of the Permo-Carboniferous Dwyka Formation along the western margin of the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Sedimentology, 37, 231-245.
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Brochure of the Western Cape Branch of the Geological Society of South Africa
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COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE (2001). Geological map of Sheet 3118 Calvinia (scale 1:250 000). Publication, Council for Geoscience, South Africa.
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-31.43754, 19.144855
Northern Cape
- Namakwa
- Hantam
Gradings
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Autoid
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Submitted by doug.cole on 30/10/2013 - 17:19.
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Grade II
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Sited on a glacial pavement on quartzitic sandstone of the Skurweberg Formation. Should be graded provincial (II) in line with other glacial pavements such as Nooitgedacht, Kimberley District. Grading by: DOUG COLE
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Medium
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Medium
Statement of Significance
The glacial pavement is one of a few such pavements exposed in South Africa. The glacial structures include scours, grooves and bulbous bedforms and were formed about 300 million years ago during the Dwyka glaciation on lithified sandstone that was deposited as sand about 420 million years ago.
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