GEO106S 2005 Field Trips


Description: High angle dune bedding exposed in outcrops of the Langebaan Formation, Kraal Bay

Description: The class of 2005 assembled below the Preekstoel, a sea stack built of dune bedded sandy limestone, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: View across the summit of Seeberg to the Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Entrance to Saldanha Bay from Hoedjies Punt

Description: Deep gully eroded in granites near the Bomsgat, Hoedjies Punt peninsula, Saldanha Bay

Description: Angular planar contact between two granitic intrusions, Bomsgat, Saldanha Bay

Description: Xenolith of the coarse porphyritic G1 granite within the G2 quartz porphyry, Bomsgat, Saldanha Bay

Description: The Bomsgat, a sea cave exposed on the Hoedjies Punt peninsula, Saldanha Bay

Description: Dr Roger Smith of Iziko Museums explaining the Pliocene fossil assemblage at the West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaan

Description: Excavated bone bed in the floor of the old phosphate mine, West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaan

Description: Bones of ancient mammals exposed in the West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaan

Description: Mountain forming sandstones of the Table Mountain Group, Travellers Rest, northern Cederberg

Description: Lorraine Farmhouse, Travellers Rest, northern Cederberg

Description: The class of 2005 assembled in Nieuwoudtville

Description: Enforced stop on the N7 highway to contemplate the loss of the rear window!

Description: Top of the Gydo Pass, north of Ceres, within Bokkeveld shale and Nardouw sandstones in the background

Description: Headed for the fossils, Bokkeveld shales exposed in the Gydo Pass area, Ceres

Description: Intense activity directed at the Bokkeveld shales and their rich inventory of brachiopods, trilobites and other marine fossils

Description: Wrapped around an impressive outcrop of Dwyka Tillte, Karoopoort

Description: Karoopoort, a gap in the Cape Fold Belt northeast of Ceres, where Witteberg sandstones define the syntaxis

Description: Sheer cliffs of Nardouw sandstones loom over the Cogmanskloof Pass



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