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
accumulate active addition Africa alien plants alteration amount ancient basin beach beach sand beds building Cape Flats Cape Fold Belt Cape Granite Cape Peninsula Cape Supergroup Cape Town area cliffs coastal continent covered deep deposits dune early Earth environment eroded erosion eventually example exposed exposures Figure flow forces Formation fossils fynbos geological Graafwater granite Group hills human impact increase indicate joints Karoo land landscape Langebaan layers less look loss magma major Malmesbury rocks mantle margin million years ago minerals move natural occur Ocean Park past period plants Point quartz recent record relatively result Rhodes Memorial Ridge rise river road sand sandstone sea level sediment seen shale similar slopes soil South species surface surrounding Table Bay Table Mountain tectonic thick types underlying uplift vegetation weathering West Coast Western