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Quartzite from
Tsodilo Hills, Ngamiland West District, North-West District, Botswana


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Type:Quartzite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tsodilo Hills, Ngamiland West District, North-West District, Botswana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1332825
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1332825:2
GUID (UUID V4):24727779-a488-457e-9c67-24c9eb75b75e
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interpretation of Landsat imagery and air photography of Botswana Overseas Geology and Mineral Resources D. I...pattern 30 Northern Botswana 31 Western Botswana (north of the Makgadikgadi Line) 32 Botswana south-east of...mosaic of north-west Botswana 1 ‱ 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Key to Landsat 1 scenes of Botswana used as...rocks of the Molopo Valley near Khuis, south-west Botswana 10 Sketch section across the Tuli- Sabi Karoo...Karoo syncline in the region of Bobonong, east Botswana 15 Structures in the Victoria Falls- Kazungular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics...USA c British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK d Geological Survey...Survey Department, Private Bag 14, Lobatse, Botswana e Department of Earth Sciences and Geography, Bridgewater...and drill-core samples in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana constrain the distribution and temporal evolution...outboard of older crustal provinces in eastern Botswana. The subsurface part of this orogen includes a
Book
REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Water Affairs Geological Survey Department ...Geology of Botswana to 1966 PRICE Rl.OOc PRINTED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER GABERONES BOTSWANA ISRIC LIBRRRY...Annotated Bibliography and Index of the Geology of Botswana to 1966 Compiled by C.A. Laughton, Geologist...This is the first Bibliography of the geology of Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) and it includes both published...the main source of information on the geology of Botswana i s to be found in the files of unpublished reports
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provenance signature of sandstone from the Okwa Group, Botswana T. Andersen Department of Geosciences, University...from the Tswaane Formation of the Okwa Group of Botswana have been dated by U-Pb and analysed for Hf isotopes...PROVENANCE SIGNATURE OF SANDSTONE FROM THE OKWA GROUP, BOTSWANA ablation inductively coupled multicollector plasma...Tswaane Formation of the Okwa Group in western Botswana, in order to ïŹll a gap in the detrital zircon...Durrheim, 2018; Oriolo and Becker, 2018) in western Botswana (Figure 1a). The crystalline basement of the Okwa
Report (issue)
47 48 55 55 69 81 KwaZulu-Natal Mpumalanga North West Province Northern Cape Province Northern Province...Province South Africa — no further provenance Angola Botswana Lesotho Mozambique Namibia 85 96 98 106 126 128...includes the entirety of the modern states of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and...tradition of Zambia on the other, with the Matopo Hills sequence in southwestern Zimbabwe more strongly...latter's border with KwaZulu-Natal. Continuing north the Drakensberg escarpment runs through western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of a Middle Proterozoic orogenic province lying west of the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons. *Present address:...along strike in central and northern Zambia to the north of the Zambezi belt (Daly et al., 1984; 24 ° E...with the Irumide belt as originally defined to the north. The Choma-Kalomo block occupies a critical position...dislocation (de Swardt et al., 1965); GH = Goha Hills; T H = Tsodilo Hills; KI = Kamativi inlier; LP = Lomagundi...schist in northwest include significant amounts of quartzite. C -- Choma; K = Kalomo; P -- Phoenix mica mine;
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to the west with the Kaoko Belt and to the east with the Zambezi Belt [22,23]. sects to the west with the...Belt extends ENE–WSW, which welded the Congo in the west and Kalahari CratonCraton in the southeast by the...thebeDOB can be into aZone Northern Zone (NZ) and North(NP), Central Zone (CZ), Southern Zone (SZ) and the...379 3 of 23 The Central Zone is subdivided into north (nCZ) and south (sCZ) Central Zones by the Omaruru...rocks of the Nosib and Swakop Groups comprise of quartzite, arkoses and conglomerate, calc-silicate rocks
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scatters in the Namib Desert near Walvis Bay, Namibia, north of the area examined by Hardaker (2020). Similarities...different lithologies (particularly considering quartzite variability; e.g., Prieto et al., 2019) that may...materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age. Journal of...Proposed Kalahari Solar Project, Kuruman Magisterial District, Northern Cape. Unpublished report prepared for...2019. DeïŹning and characterizing archaeological quartzite: sedimentary and metamorphic processes in the
Book
These rocks were characterized by ‘a general north-northeasterly trend’, and du Toit (1927) attributed...that, by the early Ediacaran, the Amazonian and West Africa Cratons were probably still attached to Laurentia...the Central Eburnean Zone and Lubango Zone in the west. Magmatism recorded in these domains is attributed...peak metamorphism and deformation associated with north-northwest-south- Preface Preface xi southeast...shortening by c. 512–508 Ma. A switch to east–west shortening and north–south extension is evident in the Damara
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diamonds were Australia, central and southern Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Zaire), and...production in the areas omitted (e.g., Russia, North America, western Africa, and China), they were less...deposits are located in the western portions of North America (especially British Columbia in Canada,...came from abalone growers on the Pacific Coast of North America and in New Zealand. Mabes are more easily...Nigeria Kaduna—Gwantu Plateau—Janta, Rafin Gabas Hills, Sha Kaleri Plateau—Jos Plateau—Nassarawan Eggon:
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has been a lecturer at the Mafikeng Camp of of North-West University in South Africa (formerly the University...Republic of South Africa BERNARD K. MBENGA North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Republic of South...Turbulent Times: Political Transformations in the North and East, 1760s—1830s aU ROBERT ROSS JOHN WRIGHT...Swaziland, parts of southern Mozambique and eastern Botswana. In other words, we are dealing largely with the...a certain degree, that to the west of its upper reaches and in the west of the continent to the south
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and...of the world class Siguiri orogenic gold district (Guinea, West Africa) .................................mineral systems – Hodgkinson metallogenic zone, north Queensland, Australia ...........................the carbonate-hosted Sadiola gold deposit, Mali, West Africa. ..........................................Kostin Proterozoic metallogeny in the NW border of Botswana Sergi Cardona, Lisard Torró, Marc Campeny, Eloi
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253 C. 6,000-Meter Peaks in the Andes 255 D. North America’s 257 14,000-Footers E. The World’s Highest...by Numbers Seven Summits The 6 + 1 Great Alpine North Faces 144 185 190 2 144 189 159 Volcanic Seven...depth of challenge presented by these formidable “hills,” them, the tender colors roar of avalanches...perspective in of Mont condi- Blanc in the north, along the ArĂ©te de Bionassay, af- tion is precisely...Our objective lay straight ahead, a mile to the west of the refuge. I roped up with Lau- Saas-Fee. We
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ordered in the 'Contents list by subject' west to east, and north to south, and within regions contributions...Cronin Institute of Natural Resources, Palmerston North, New Zealand Jerimy J Cunningham The University...Institution , Washington , DC, USA Scott M Fitzpatrick North Carolina State University, Raleigh , NC, USA Jeannine...Grossman Bronx , NY, USA Mark J Hudson University of West Kyushu, Kanzagi, Saga, Japan Rainer Grffn The Australian... Wooster, OH, USA William B Lees University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA Edward J Keall Royal
 
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