Geology Honours 2005 Field Excursion


I: Witwatersrand conglomerates with poorly sorted quartz pebbles in a matrix rich in pyrite

I: Pyrite rich quartz pebble conglomerate, Witwatersrand Group, South Deep gold mine

I: Icy rime covering the tent openings at a very frosty campsite alongside the Vaal River, Parys

I: Enfrosted patterns on wooden logs in the Smilin Thru resort, Vaal River, Parys

I: Iced chocolate for breakfast?

I: Iced coffee for breakfast?

I: Witwatersrand quartzites exposed in the collar of the Vredefort Dome

I: Stratified quartzites of the Witwatersrand Group dip towards the centre of the Vredefort Dome

I: Cross-bedded fluvial quartzites of the Witwatersrand Group cut by a grey pseudotachylite vein, Vredefort collar

I: Measuring the dip and palaeocurrent direction preserved in overturned Witwatersrand quartzites in the Vredefort collar

I: Basement Archaean granitic gneisses in the centre of the Vredefort Dome at Otavi

I: Drill holes left after sampling of the pseudotachylite veins in the granite gneiss basement, Otavi

I: Net veins of pseudotachylite in basement granite gneiss, Otavi quarry

I: Koppieskraal Quarry cut in basement granite gneiss, Vredefort dome

I: Migmatititc granite gneiss, Koppieskraal quarry, Vredefort Dome

I: Blocks of pseudotachylite riven granite gneiss, Koppieskraal quarry, Vredefort

I: Dark pseudotachylite veins cross cutting granite gneiss, Koppieskraal quarry, Vredefort

I: Introduction to the geology of the Waterval platinum mine, Rustenburg

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