Tuesday, November 25, 2014

2014 Diary: Day 15 - And the Lows

From Nick and his Team

One of the other teams did the opposite; traversing the low country in the north of the area. Michelle was visiting from Head Office and we were out to impress: the search was for basement volcanic rocks, but these proved rather to be rather enigmatic and sparse. Penester (Economic Geologist mind you!) summed it up: ”I’ve seen enough granodiorites to last a lifetime”. We couldn’t really disagree…

Clockwise from top left; Basement Granodiorites of the Vioolsdrif Suite, locally highly sheared but still the same unit; Shane and Penester capturing the details, contemplating the more varied geology on the Namibian side of the Orange River, “you can’t fool me, these are still sheared granodiorites!”

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