GEO106S 2005 Field Trips


Description: Section exposed in the cliffs below Chapmans Peak: Cape Granite unconformably overlain by the Table Mountain Group

Description: Cretaceous dolerite dyke cuts the granite basement and the overlying Cape Supergroup sediments

Description: Heading across Hout Bay to the Sentinel and the seals

Description: The Sentinel towers over Hout Bay

Description: Close up and personal with Cape fur seals resting on granite

Description: Cape Granite outcrops below the Sentinel, Hout Bay

Description: Cape Peninsula coastal cliffs between Hout Bay and Llandudno

Description: Chapmans Peak cliffs from the Sentinel

Description: Heading across Hout Bay towards Chapmans Peak

Description: Examination of the Malmesbury Group at Bloubergstarnd, with Table Mountain in the background

Description: Thinly bedded greywacke-shale sequence at Bloubergstrand

Description: Fault contact between the Bloubergstrand volcanic shales (red but altered along the fault plane) and greywacke

Description: Amongst the black gabbro outcrops at the north end of Yzerfontein

Description: Steeply dipping modal layering in the Yzerfontein gabbro

Description: Detail of the modal layering in the Yzerfontein gabbro (white plagioclase and black pyroxene)

Description: Fractured and altered diorite at the south end of Yzerfontein

Description: Pink granitic vein cutting the Yzerfontein gabbro and containing xenoliths of gabbro

Description: Negotiating Kraal Bay, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Ostrich nest south of Kraal Bay, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Main channel feeding supratidal marshland, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Current action eroding organic overbank muds along the tidal channel, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Mud filled tidal channels exposed in supratidal marshland, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Circular feeding traces in the sand produced by flamingoes, Langebaan Lagoon

Description: Intertidal sand flats exposed at low tide, Langebaan Lagoon

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