Title:

The geochemistry of basic volcanics of the Dordabis Formation NE of Dordabis and their significance for correlations within, and evolution of, the Rehoboth magmatic arc

Publication Year:
1985
Abstract:

Gevers (1934) named the succession of quartzites, feldspathic sandstones, massive conglomeratic arkoses and sedimentary breccias around Dordabis, the Dordabis Series. He considered this series to be of Nama age and the basic volcanics in the series to be post Nama, pre-Karoo eruptive diabase. Schalk (pers. comm.) has found the succession to be pre-Damara in age and possibly equivalent to the Sinclair Sequence. These ‘Dordabis Series’ rocks have since been incorrectly included into the Marienhof Formation of the Rehoboth Sequence on the 1980 1:1 000 000 Geological Map of SWA/Namibia. In this report, it is suggested that this succession be called the Dordabis Formation.

Publication Title:

Communications of the Geological Survey of South West Africa/Namibia

Publisher:
Geological Survey, SWA/Namibia
Volume:
1
Pages:
93
Item Type:
Journal Article
Language:
en
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