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Cornelia is a town on the R103 road in the Free State province of South Africa.J.D. Odendaal bought the farm "Sugarloaf" (known as Tafelkop) for a sum of R2,000.They settled there in 1876.
The Clarens Formation is a geological formation found in several localities in Lesotho and in the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape provinces in South Africa.It is the uppermost of the three formations found in the Stormberg Group of the greater Karoo Supergroup rocks and represents the final phase of preserved sedimentation of the Karoo Basin.
Lesotho shares many commonalities with the geology of South Africa, with Kaapvaal Craton crystalline basement rock that formed 3.6 to 2.5 billion years ago. Geologists have gleaned insights into Lesotho's deep past through extrapolation from South Africa, xenoliths extracted from kimberlite pipes and other data from drilling.
The Kaapvaal Craton covers an area of approximately 1,200,000 km 2 (460,000 sq mi) and is joined to the Zimbabwe Craton to the north by the Limpopo Belt.To the south and west, the Kaapvaal Craton is flanked by Proterozoic orogens, and to the east by the Lebombo monocline that contains Jurassic igneous rocks associated with the break-up of Gondwana.
Mines of the Merensky Reef. The Merensky Reef is a layer of igneous rock in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) in the North West, Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa which together with an underlying layer, the Upper Group 2 Reef (UG2), contains most of the world's known reserves of platinum group metals (PGMs) or platinum group elements (PGEs)—platinum, palladium ...
It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for 1,600 km (1,000 mi). It begins at an elevation of 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) in the sandy highlands of Angola. Farther south, it forms part of the border between Angola and Namibia, and then flows into Botswana. The Okavango does not have an outlet to the sea.
A mountain in the Tanqua Karoo, South Africa, with multiple layers of turbidites formed in the south-western portion of the Karoo Sea about 300 million years The rocks of the Ecca Group first appear near Sutherland in its westernmost deposits, and continues east through Laingsburg , Prince Albert , Jansenville , Grahamstown , and up until the ...
The Journal of African Earth Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier established in 1983. ... South African Journal of Geology; References