GEO106S - FIELD EXCURSIONS  THROUGH THE WESTERN CAPE 
Photo gallery of the class of 1998 
Cape Peninsula  Western Cape: Day 1 (Cape Town - Saldanha); Day 2 (Saldanha - Cedarburg); Day 3 (Cedarburg - Ceres); Day 4 (Ceres - Cape Town) 
Cape Peninsula 
 
Swartklip (Stop 1) - Velddrif Formation - Pleistocene estuarine shelly sands Swartklip (Stop 1) - Velddrif Formation - Pleistocene estuarine shelly sands
Swartklip (Stop 1) - Velddrif Formation - Pleistocene estuarine bivalve fossils Swartklip (Stop 1) - Velddrif Formation - Pleistocene estuarine bivalve fossils

 
Glencairn Quarry (Stop 3) - Peninsula Formation sandstones Glencairn Quarry (Stop 3) - Peninsula Formation sandstones
Glencairn Quarry (Stop 3) - Peninsula Formation sandstones Noordhoek Beach (Stop 7) - view south from Chapmans Peak Drive
  Noordhoek Beach (Stop 7) - back barrier lagoon View south from Grootkop to Sandy Bay (right) and Hout Bay (left) 

 
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Base of the Table Mountain Group (Graafwater Formation) resting unconformably on granite Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Graafwater Formation sediments
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Graafwater strata unconformably overlying Cape granite Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Graafwater strata unconformably overlying Cape granite
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Graafwater Formation, alternating brown sandstones and maroon siltstones Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Interbedded sandstones and maroon shales of the Graafwater Formation
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Interbedded sandstones and maroon shales of the Graafwater Formation Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Interbedded sandstones and maroon shales of the Graafwater Formation
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Graafwater Formation Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Normal fault in Graafwater Formation
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Normal fault in Graafwater Formation Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 8) - Fault in Graafwater Formation
Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Dolerite dyke cutting Graafwater Formation Chapmans Peak Drive (Stop 9) - Dolerite dyke intruding Graafwater strata
  
4-day excursion through the Western Cape.  Day 1: Cape Town to Saldanha Bay 
Bloubergstrand (Stop 1-1) - view south from Bloubergstrand to Table Mountain Bloubergstrand (Stop 1-1) - tightly folded Malmesbury Group strata
Bloubergstrand (Stop1-1) - tightly folded Malmesbury Group strata Bloubergstrand (Stop1-1) - tightly folded Malmesbury Group strata
Bloubergstrand (Stop1-1) - tightly folded Malmesbury Group strata   Bloubergstrand (Stop1-1) - fold closure in Malmesbury Group strata
Bloubergstrand (Stop 1-1) - red volcaniclastic shale altered to green by fault-directed fluids Bloubergstrand (Stop 1-1) - sub-horizontal flat vein system developed in Malmesbury Group greywacke
Bloubergstrand (Stop 1-1) - hydrothermal veins (quartz + chlorite + calcite) in Malmesbury greywacke    

 
Yzerfontein (Stop 1-2) - Gabbro Point - vertical layering in gabbro   Yzerfontein (Stop 1-2) - Gabbro Point - vertical layering in gabbro
Yzerfontein (Stop 1-3) - Die Eiland - pink leuococratic granite vein cutting diorite is rich in xenoliths (gabbro + diorite) Yzerfontein (Stop 1-3) - Die Eiland - pink leuococratic granite vein cutting diorite is rich in xenoliths (gabbro + diorite)
Yzerfontein (Stop 1-3) - Die Eiland - xenoliths of gabbro and diorite in leucogranite    

 
Langebaan Lagoon (Stop 1-4) - southern margin of lagoon at high tide Langebaan Lagoon (Stop 1-4) - southern shores of Kraal Bay
  Langebaan Lagoon (Stop 1-5) - Kraal Bay - cliffed shore exposes Pleistocene fossil dunes Langebaan Lagoon (Stop 1-5) - Preekstoel at Kraal bay - dune bedding
 
  
Western Cape. Day 2: Saldanha Bay to northern Cedarburg 
Saldanha Harbour (Stop 2-1) - Quaternary estuarine and aeolian sediments unconformably overly Cambrian Saldanha Quartz Porphyry Saldanha Harbour (Stop 2-1) - Quaternary sediments unconformably overly Cambrian quartz porphyry
  Saldanha Harbour (Stop 2-1) - Quaternary sediments unconformably overly Cambrian quartz porphyry Bomgat (Stop 2-2) - Intrusive contact between Saldanha Qtz Porphyry (above) and Hoedjiespunt Granite (below)
Bomgat (Stop 2-2) - planar intrusive contact between the younger Saldanha Quartz Porphyry (left) and the Hoedjiespunt Granite (right) Bomgat (Stop 2-2) - Quaternary boulder beach, estuarine and dune deposits unconformably overly Cambrian Hoedjiespunt Granite

 
  Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - view east across St Helena Bay Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - intrusive contact between granite (right) and dark Malmesbury Group metasediments
Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - granite intruding Malmesbury Group metasediments Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - leucocratic microgranite (aplite) vein in Malmesbury Group metasediments
Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - deformation of foliation in Malmesbury Grop metasediments adjacent to an aplite vein Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - Professor Reid with students
  Slippers Bay (Stop 2-4) - Professor Reid (left) with students (Khumbu Ndlovu, Ntokozo Mgagule, Nic Motaungin front)    
 
 
Pakhuis Pass (Stop 2-6) - rough blocky outcrops developed on Peninsula Formation sandstones Pakhuis Pass (Stop 2-6) - thinly bedded sanstones of the Nardouw Subgroup
Pakhuis Pass (Stop 2-6) - view east to Nardouw Subgroup sandtones     

  
Western Cape.  Day 3: Cedarburg to Ceres 
Doring River Valley viewpoint (Stop 3-1) - view east over scarps and mesas of Bokkeveld Group strata   Doring River Valley viewpoint (Stop 3-1) - view east over scarps and mesas of Bokkeveld Group strata
Doring River Valley viewpoint (Stop 3-1) - view west to Cedarburg high crest (Peninsula Formation) with overlying Nardouw strata in foreground   Botterkloof Pass (Stop 3-2) - thinly bedded shale and sandstone in a coarsening upward cycle within the Bokkeveld Group
Matjiesfontein (Stop 3-3) - Dwyka Tillite, dropstones of quartzite in finely laminated fissile claystone Matjiesfontein (Stop 3-3) - dropstone in Dwyka Tillite
Matjiesfontein (Stop 3-3) - dropstone in Dwyka Tillite Matjiesfontein (Stop 3-3) - fissile Dwyka Tillite matrix claystone with quartzite dropstone

 
Oorlogskloof (Stop 3-4) - scoured glacial pavement below Dwyka Tillite (grooved soft sediment covering Nardouw Subgroup)   Oorlogskloof (Stop 3-4) - scoured glacial pavement below Dwyka Tillite (grooved soft sediment covering Nardouw Subgroup)
Oorlogskloof (Stop 3-4) - scoured glacial pavement below Dwyka Tillite (grooved soft sediment covering Nardouw Subgroup) Oorlogskloof (Stop 3-4) - scoured glacial pavement below Dwyka Tillite (grooved soft sediment covering Nardouw Subgroup)
Oorlogskloof (Stop 3-4) - glacially grooved soft sediment covering Nardouw Subgroup, with subsequent slumping Nieuwoudtville Waterfall (Stop 3-5) - Nardouw Subgroup strata unconformably overlying Neoproterozoic Vanrhynsdorp Formation
Nieuwoudtville Waterfall (Stop 3-5) - Nardouw Subgroup strata unconformably overlying Neoproterozoic Vanrhynsdorp Formation     
 
 
Western Cape.  Day 4: Ceres to Cape Town 
Karoopoort (Stop 4-3) - dipping Witteberg Group strata Karoopoort (Stop 4-4) - view south to poort where Witteberg Group strata dip below Dwyka Formation
  Dwyka Tillite (Stop 4-5) - clast rich, matrix supported glacial deposit Kogmans Kloof (Stop 4-8) - vertical sandstone strata of the Nardouw Subgroup
Kogmans Kloof (Stop 4-8) - vertical face of Peninsula Formation sandstone Kogmans Kloof (Stop 4-8) - view west along strike of vertical Peninsula Formation
Kogmans Kloof (Stop 4-9) - vertical rotated unconformity between Peninsula Formation (left) and Malmesbury Group metasediments (phyllites)