By Nick and his team (Penester, Haajiera and Ndidi)
Today saw the return to the previous area
in the north, partly necessitated by travelling for just over 3 hours to the
last outcrop of yesterday to recover Nick’s hammer…a small sacrifice in
comparison to the effort of procuring a new one! Plus a worthwhile exercise in
GPS navigation, so all was good. The day was once again spent in basement, but
this time with more variety in that extensive development of largely
intermediate to felsic volcaniclastic metasediments was encountered along with
the granodiorite. Dykes of the Gannakouriep suite are widespread, with dykes
intruding earlier bodies being a subject of interest. A quick escape down to
the Orange River (the juxtaposition of river and desert is a highlight of the
Richtersveld) to cool down was successful; the search for a possible diamond in
the river gravels was not!
Clockwise
from top left: ‘Hand of God’ eroded into the sheared basement metavolcanics;
team scale perspective; Gannagariep dyke-intruding-dyke exposure; Nick at the
granitoid contact with his re-claimed hammer, Haajirah getting her chance to
develop 4x4 skills in the real environment; Nick, Ndidi, Penester and Haajirah
escaping the 40+ deg desert heat today; Penester overcoming one of her field
‘fears’ (spot the little bird) :)
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