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The study or science of the earth, its history, and its life as recorded in the rocks; includes the study of geologic features of an area, such as the geometry of rock formations, weathering and erosion, and sedimentation. (Source: MGH)

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Dingle RV 1973. The geology of the continental shelf between Luderitz and Cape Town (Southwest Africa), with special reference to Tertiary strata. Journal of the Geological Society 129 (4) 337-362

Website link:http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/129/4/337.abstract

Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, Bangert B, Grill H 2000. Tuffs, tectonism and glacially related sea-level changes, Carboniferous-Permian, southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 161 (1-2) 127-150

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018200001206

Smith RMH, Mason TR, Ward JD 1993. Flash-flood sediments and ichnofacies of the Late Pleistocene Homeb Silts, Kuiseb River, Namibia. Sedimentary Geology 85 (1-4) 579-599

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/003707389390103C

Holzförster F, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG 1999. Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments in the Waterberg-Erongo area, central Namibia, and correlation with the main Karoo Basin, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (1) 105-123

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536299000834

Saylor BZ, Poling JM, Huff WD 2005. Stratigraphic and chemical correlation of volcanic ash beds in the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Geological Magazine 142 (5) 519-538

Website link:http://geolmag.geoscienceworld.org/content/142/5/519.abstract

Wood RA, Grotzinger JP, Dickson JAD 2002. Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science 296 (5577) 2383-2386

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/296/5577/2383.abstract

Vickers-Rich P, Yu Ivantsov A, Trusler PW, Narbonne GM, Hall M, Wilson SA, Greentree C, Fedonkin MA, Elliott DA, Hoffmann K-H, Schneider GIC 2013. Reconstructing Rangea: New Discoveries from the Ediacaran of Southern Namibia.. Journal of Paleontology 87 (1) 1-15

Website link:http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/content/87/1/1.abstract

Wilson JP, Grotzinger JP, Fischer WW, Hand KP, Jensen S, Knoll AH, Abelson J, Metz JM, McLoughlin N, Cohen PA, Tice MM 2012. Deep-Water incised valley deposits at the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in southern Namibia contain abundant Treptichnus Pedum. Palaios 27 (4) 252-273

Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/27/4/252.abstract

Jensen S, Runnegar BN 2005. A complex trace fossil from the Spitskop Member (terminal Ediacaran–? Lower Cambrian) of southern Namibia. Geological Magazine 142 (5) 561-569

Website link:http://geolmag.geoscienceworld.org/content/142/5/561.abstract

Jensen S, Saylor BZ, Gehling JG, Germs GJB 2000. Complex trace fossils from the terminal Proterozoic of Namibia. Geology 28 (2) 143-146

Website link:http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/28/2/143.abstract

Geyer G 2005. The Fish River Subgroup in Namibia: stratigraphy, depositional environments and the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary problem revisited. Geological Magazine 142 (05) 465-498

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=351111

Crimes TP, Germs GJB 1982. Trace fossils from the Nama Group (Precambrian-Cambrian) of southwest Africa (Namibia). Journal of Paleontology 56 (4) 890-907

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1304708

Whitfield D 1990. The Genesis and Controls of Gold Mineralization South of Rehoboth, Namibia.

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Codilean AT, Bishop P, Stuart FM, Hoey TB, Fabel D, Freeman SPHT 2007. Single-grain cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations in fluvial sediments reveal spatially variable erosion rates. Geology 36 (2) 159-162

Website link:http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/36/2/159.abstract

Becker T, Garoeb H, Ledru P, Milesi J-P 2005. The Mesoproterozoic event within the Rehoboth Basement Inlier of Namibia: review and new aspects of stratigraphy, geochemistry, structure and plate tectonic Setting. South African Journal of Geology 108 (4) 465-492

Website link:http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/content/108/4/465.abstract

Jacobs J, Pisarevsky S, Thomas RJ, Becker T 2008. The Kalahari Craton during the assembly and dispersal of Rodinia. Precambrian Research 160 (1-2) 142-158

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926807001611

Becker T, Schreiber U, Kampunzu AB, Armstrong RA 2006. Mesoproterozoic rocks of Namibia and their plate tectonic Setting. Journal of African Earth Sciences 46 (1-2) 112-140

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X0600135X

Ewart A, Milner SC, Armstrong RA, Dungan AR 1998. Etendeka Volcanism of the Goboboseb Mountains and Messum Igneous Complex, Namibia. Part I: Geochemical Evidence of Early Cretaceous Tristan Plume Melts and the Role of Crustal Contamination in the Paraná–Etendeka CFB. Journal of Petrology 39 (2) 191-225

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Haack U, Hoefs J, Gohn E 1982. Constraints on the origin of Damaran granites by Rb/Sr and d18O data. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 79 (3) 279-289

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00371519

Haack U, Martin H 1983. Geochronology of the Damara Orogen — A Review. Intracontinental Fold Belts, Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia 839-846

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_36

Haack U, Hoefs J, Gohn E 1983. Genesis of Damaran Granites in the Light of Rb/Sr and d18O Data. Intracontinental Fold Belts, Case Studies in the Variscan Belt of Europe and the Damara Belt in Namibia 847-872

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_37

Becker T 2002. The petrogenesis of the Alberta Complex within the Rehoboth Basement Inlier of Namibia. South African Journal of Geology 105 (2) 147-162

Website link:http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/content/105/2/147.abstract

Weber K, Ahrendt H 1983. Structural Development of the Ugab Structural Domain of the Northern Zone of the Damara Orogen. Intracontinental Fold Belts 699-721

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_28

Martin H 1983. Alternative Geodynamic Models for the Damara Orogeny. A Critical Discussion. Intracontinental Fold Belts 913-945

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69124-9_41

Trumbull RB, Vietor T, Hahne K, Wackerle R, Ledru P 2004. Aeromagnetic mapping and reconnaissance geochemistry of the Early Cretaceous Henties Bay-Outjo dike swarm, Etendeka Igneous Province, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 40 (1-2) 17-29

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536204000818

Schefuß E, Kuhlmann H, Mollenhauer G, Prange M, Pätzold J 2011. Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years. Nature 480 509 - 512

Website link:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7378/full/nature10685.html?WT_ec=

Natural and socio-economic environment.

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Burke A 2002. Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs-the effect of geology and derived landforms. Journal of Arid Environments 50 (2) 219 - 234

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196301909073

About Geology.

Website link:http://geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/n_map_namibia.htm

Mineralienatlas. (Mineral Atlas).

Website link:http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Namibia

Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology. Geologische übersicht.Übersicht über die Entwicklung Gondwanas und die darin eingebundene Stellung Namibias. Environmental Geology

Website link:http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/studenten/namibia/namex_hp/geologie.htm

Namibia Map - Namibia Satellite Image.

Website link:http://geology.com/world/namibia-satellite-image.shtml

Geological Survey of Namibia.

Website link:http://www.mme.gov.na/gsn/

USGS Providing science and imagery to better understand our Earth. Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

Website link:http://glovis.usgs.gov/

Thomas DSG, Shaw PA 1991. The Kalahari environment.

Thomas DSG, Shaw PA 2002. Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: New data, synthesis, issues and prospects. Quaternary Science Reviews 21 783 - 797

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379101001275

Thangarajan M, Linn F, Uhl V, Bakaya TB, Gabaake GG 1999. Modelling an inland delta aquifer system to evolve pre-development management schemes: A case study in upper Thamalakane River Valley. Southern Africa Enviromental Geology 38 (4) 285-295

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002540050426

Shaw PA, Thomas DSG 1988. Lake Caprivi: A late Quaternary link between the Zambezi and middle Kalahari drainage systems. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, NF 32 (3) 329 - 337

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233388729_Lake_Caprivi_a_late_Quaternary_link_between_the_Zambezi_and_Middle_Kalahari_drainage_systems

Shaw PA, Cooke HJ 1986. Geomorphic evidence for the late Quaternary paleoclimates of the middle Kalahari of northern Botswana. Catena 13 (4) 349 - 359

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0341-8162(86)90009-3

Hegenberger W 1987. Stand der geologischen Kenntnisse über das Kavangogebiet. Journal of the South West African Scientific Society 40 - 41 97 - 114

Gumbricht T, McCarthy TS, Merry CL 2001. The topography of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its tectonic and sedimentological implications. South African Journal of Geology 104 243 - 264

Website link:http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/content/104/3/243

Carruthers RM, Greenwood PG 1973. Geophysical surveys in the Okavango Delta.

Frangi JP 1992. Energy budget of the Sahelian surface layer. Annales Geophysicae 10 25 - 33

Website link:https://www.ann-geophys.net/volumes.html

2002. 2.04 The geology of Namibia. Its major rock formations and sequences.

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Thomas RJ, Macey PH, Spencer C, Dhansay T, Diener JFA, Lambert CW, Frei D, Nguno A 2016. The Sperrgebiet Domain, Aurus Mountains, SW Namibia: A -2020–850 Ma window within the Pan-African Gariep Orogen. Precambrian Research 286 35-58

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926816301796

Railsback LB, Brook GA, Liang F, Marais E, Cheng H, Edwards RL 2016. A multi-proxy stalagmite record from northwestern Namibia of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr: The interplay of a globally shifting ITCZ with regional currents, winds, and rainfall. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 461 109-121

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Lum JE, Viljoen F, Cairncross B, Frei D 2016. Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of BERYL (AQUAMARINE) from the Erongo Volcanic Complex, Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 124 104-125

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X16302977

Will TM, Frimmel HE, Pfänder JA 2016. Möwe Bay Dykes, Northwestern Namibia: Geochemical and geochronological evidence for different mantle source regions during the Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic. Chemical Geology 444 141-157

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254116304569

Vogel JC 1982. The age of the Kuiseb River silt terrace at Homeb. Palaeoecology of Africa and the surrounding islands 15 201-210

Scholz H 1968. Die Böden der Wüste Namib/Südwestafrika. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde 119 (2) 91-107

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jpln.19681190202/abstract