The Damara is a high-grade, apparently intracratonic, Pan-African Orogenic Belt which has been the subject of unusually detailed geochemical and petrological studies. Basement inliers (2.0-1.0 Ga) underlie predominantly continental sediments, deposited in the period 1.0-0.7 Ga, and these are overlain unconformably by molasse-type deposits at least 580 Ma old.