The Rocks and Mountains of Cape Town |
Contents
LOCATION MAP | 7 |
The view from space | 15 |
Ancient continental collisions and the African superswell | 21 |
From rock to soil | 30 |
Plants on the rocks | 36 |
Cape Towns oldest rocks | 44 |
Deep intrusion of Cape Granite magma | 50 |
An enormous pile of sand | 57 |
collision and deformation on a large scale | 68 |
Langebaan Lagoon | 81 |
Early Capetonians | 88 |
Water from the rocks | 95 |
The future | 104 |
GEOLOGICAL MAP | 110 |
Common terms and phrases
000 years ago accumulate acid African continent alien plants beach sand bedrock Cape Flats Cape Fold Belt Cape Granite Cape Peninsula Cape Supergroup Cape Town area Cedarberg Chapman's Peak Drive cliffs coastal collision cross-bedding deep Devil's Peak dune sand Dwyka earthquake ecosystem environment eroded erosion exposed exposures Figure flow Fold Belt Mountains fynbos geological Graafwater and Peninsula Graafwater Formation groundwater Hout Bay human ice sheets Karoo Basin Karoo Plateau landscape Langebaan Langebaan Lagoon layers Lion's Head magma Malmesbury Group Malmesbury rocks Malmesbury shale mantle million years ago minerals Mowbray Ridge mudstone ocean basin oceanic crust offshore Pakhuis Pangaea Peninsula Formation quartz relatively ripple river Robben Island rock record rock types sandstone sea level Sea Point sediment shale Signal Hill slopes soil South Africa southern Africa species subduction surface Table Bay Table Mountain Group tectonic forces TMG sandstones Town's Tygerberg uplift vegetation Velddrif weathering Western Cape