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Ermelo

Barberton

Musina

Louis Trichardt

Rustenburg

Thabazimbi

Vryburg

Pofadder

Port Nolloth

Vanrhynsdorp

Vredenburg

Worcester

Laingsburg

OudtshoornGrahamstown

Queenstown

Umtata

Port Shepstone

Richards Bay

Vryheid

KlerksdorpVredefort

Swellendam

Aliwal North

Calvinia

Prieska

Kuruman

Welkom

Phalaborwa

Harrismith

Carnarvon

Colesberg

Maseru

Durban

Mbabane

Mafikeng

Upington

Pretoria

Springbok

Nelspruit

Kimberley

Cape TownMossel Bay

Polokwane

East London

Bloemfontein

Johannesburg

Graaff-ReinetBeaufort West

Port Elizabeth

Pietermaritzburg

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA ANDTHE KINGDOMS OF LESOTHO AND SWAZILAND

NOTES ON THE CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA AND THE KINGDOMS OF LESOTHO AND SWAZILAND

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diamondoil gas

Dicroidium

Glossopteris coal

platinum chromium vanadiumiron manganese

gold

EON

ERA Ma

CENOZO

ICME

SOZOI

C

1.8

50

100

150

PHANER

OZOIC

200

250

300

350

400

450

500

PALAEO

ZOIC

Ma

545

MOKO

LIAN

PROTER

OZOIC

ARCH

AEAN

1000

2000

1500

2500

3000

3500

MOKO

LIAN

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

35003700

LEGENDPERIOD

Cretaceous

Jurassic

Triassic +

Permian

Carboniferous

Devonian

Silurian

Ordovician

Cambrian

Namaquan

Kheisian

QuaternaryTertiary *

NAMIB

IANVAA

LIAN

RAND

IANSW

AZIAN

2008

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