The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorGevers, Traugott Wilhelmen_ZA
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dc.date.issued1931en_ZA
dc.description.abstractEnormous areas of South West Africa, particularly in its central portion, are occupied by very ancient gneissoid and granitic rooks, a great variety of schists and other more or less highly metamorphosed sediment. These ancient rooks, forming as they do the backbone or nucleus of our continent, on which all younger rocks repose as a veneer of varying thickness and continuity are everywhere generally grouped together under the term Basement or Fundamental Complex. For obvious reasons, chief of which are their invariably highly folded and metamorphosed nature and the entire absence of fossils, these ancient sediments and their intrusives have nearly always after the first initiation of geological surveys in most countries of Africa been somewhat neglected and also visiting geologists have generally preferred to devote their attention and limited time to less complex problems, for the solution of which detailed mapping extended over many years was not an essential or indeed a sine qua non. A notable exception, however, to this rule is the detailed early work of Rogers and Du Toit in the northern Cape and of Hall in the eastern and northeastern Transvaal.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationGevers, T. W. (1931). <i>The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Geological Sciences. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21408en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGevers, Traugott Wilhelm. <i>"The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Geological Sciences, 1931. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21408en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGevers, T. 1931. The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Gevers, Traugott Wilhelm AB - Enormous areas of South West Africa, particularly in its central portion, are occupied by very ancient gneissoid and granitic rooks, a great variety of schists and other more or less highly metamorphosed sediment. These ancient rooks, forming as they do the backbone or nucleus of our continent, on which all younger rocks repose as a veneer of varying thickness and continuity are everywhere generally grouped together under the term Basement or Fundamental Complex. For obvious reasons, chief of which are their invariably highly folded and metamorphosed nature and the entire absence of fossils, these ancient sediments and their intrusives have nearly always after the first initiation of geological surveys in most countries of Africa been somewhat neglected and also visiting geologists have generally preferred to devote their attention and limited time to less complex problems, for the solution of which detailed mapping extended over many years was not an essential or indeed a sine qua non. A notable exception, however, to this rule is the detailed early work of Rogers and Du Toit in the northern Cape and of Hall in the eastern and northeastern Transvaal. DA - 1931 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1931 T1 - The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa TI - The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21408 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/21408
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGevers TW. The fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africa. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Geological Sciences, 1931 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21408en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherGeological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.titleThe fundamental complex of Western Damaraland, South West Africaen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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