Chapmans Peak Drive Reconstruction 2003


Description: During reconstruction the main view point was a storage area for equipment

Description: Notable addition to rock fall safety were the special wire mesh nets

Description: Entering the danger zone beyond the Main View Point on Chapmans Peak Drive

Description: Impact crators dot the old road surface and reflect the high rock fall rate during slope clean up

Description: Differential weathering of the interbedded sandstones and red shales

Description: Cross bedding well exposed in the sandstone strata

Description: Slope parallel parting

Description: Dispostion of the safety mesh net fences above the road

Description: Safety nets lean out over the road

Description: Slope parallel fractures fastened with an earlier generation of rock bolts

Description: Slope parallel fracture separating a block of rock

Description: Dyke contacts with the surrounding country rock tend to weather preferentially

Description: Detrail of the dolerite dyke cutting the Graafwater strata

Description: Net fences and a bridge deployed across an easily eroded fault zone

Description: Rock falls down a narrrow fault controlled gully are barely stopped by the road barrier

Description: A fault zone in the Graffwater is accompanied by local folding

Description: A wire mesh fence protects the second main viewpoint down the Chapmans Peak Drive

Description: Close up of the numerous holdfasts necessay to anchor the wire mesh safety fences

Description: A small normal fault displacing Graafwater strata

Description: Normal fault with about a metre displacement

Description: Complex fault splays

Description: Second dolerite dyke exposed in the road cut just below the second main viewpoint

Description: Second dolerite dyke cutting through the Graafwater just below the second main view point

Description: Detail of the dyke contact with the surrounding strata

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