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View south into core of Springbok Dome, Okiep Copper District. Augen gneisses of the Klein Namaqualand Suite.
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Klondyke Steep Structure, Okiep Copper District. Wider view showing the regional shallow dip of the gneisses beyond the steepening.
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Klondyke Steep Structure, Okiep Copper District. Steeply dipping gneisses are cut by copper-bearing mafic intrusions
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Dave Reid and Martin Wieneke pose next to a mafic dyke intruding Vioolsdrif granite. Highway exposure on the N7 south of Vioolsdrif
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Provenance Camp of Felix Unite River Adventures, near Noordoewer on the Orange River, Namibia
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GSA11 Field Excursion at Provenance Camp on the Orange River, Namibia
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Folded Nama limestones exposed in the Orange River canyon at Modderdrif
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Nama quartzites unconformably overlying metavolcanic rocks of the Orange River Group, near Xaminxaip
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"King Kong" - built of dark feldspar-phyric melasyenite of the Richtersveld alkaline intrusive suite, Stinkfontein River confluence
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The camp on the river below King Kong
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Bostonite dykes cutting granite, Richtersveld alkaline intrusive suite, between the Stinkfontein and Sjmabok River confluences
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View south down the Sjambok River towards the Orange. Numerous bostonite dykes cut granite of the Richtersveld alkaline intrusive suite
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View south up the Orange River above the mouth of the Sjambok River at left
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View south across the Orange River at Sjambok
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View SW into the canyon of the Orange River above the Sjambok River confluence. Dark bostonite dykes cross-cutting granite of the Richtersveld suite
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GSA11 N6 excursion team high above the Orange River canyon at Sjambok
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Trenches dug into fluorite veins developed in altered Richtersveld granite, Sjambokkloof
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Sjambok bostonite dyke swarm. Bifurcating fractures propogating through the country rock granite
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Detail of the intrusion geometry, Sjambok bostonite swarm. En echelon fracturing in country rock granites
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View east across the Orange near Seven Pillars. Pale Richtersveld granites intrude dark metavolcanics of the Orange River Group
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Approaching the Rosyntjieberg isoclinal fold downstream from Seven Pillars.
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Isoclinally folded quartzites of the Rosyntjieberg Formation, Orange River Group. The narrow tapering towers resemble witches hats, hence the name of the locality "The Witches"
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Detail of the isoclines within the Rosyntjieberg fold
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Emerging from the imposing quartzite mountains surrounding the Rosyntjieberg gorge
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View east into the dissected mountainland of the Haib River area. The Haib Porphyry forms the pale outcrops in the centre
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View east towards the Haib River. Darker outcrops to left are metavolcanics of the Orange River Group. Haib porphyry forms lighter outcrops to the right
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Green secondary oxidised copper stains the surface outcrops of the Haib Porphyry
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Another outcrop of the Haib Porphyry with green oxidised copper staining the surface
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Exploration adits and pits in the Haib Porphyry, excavated in the surface oxidised zone
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