10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPPER KAROO»
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Upper Karoo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
My Heart Stands in the Hill
Gubbu (Coos Toontje), 1871; ≠Giri-sse (Jan Rondebout), 1871; Unnamed man
at the Breakwater Prison, 1870s; Tsoinxa, 1911; ≠Nanni (Anna), 1911; /Kan (
Jacob Nijn), 1871; Detail ofrock engraving, Upper Karoo;/Hankum (Marcus),
1871; ...
2
The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic
Possible Mid-Triassic inversion and the 'Upper Karoo' Uplift of the 'Lower Karoo'
is interpreted to have occurred in the Mid-Triassic. In the south, it is distributed
across large east-northeast-west- southwest oriented folds such as the Swakop ...
Val S. Clure, Nick R. Cameron, Raymond Holmes Bate, 1999
3
Vegetation of Southern Africa
... tabulation of elevation and annual rainfall provided three geographically
distinct regions, namely Griqualand West and Bushmanland; the Great Karoo
and Central Lower Karoo; and the Upper Karoo and Eastern Cape Midlands (
Table 8.2).
R. M. Cowling, D. M. Richardson, S. M. Pierce, 2004
4
Phosphate Deposits of the World: Volume 2, Phosphate Rock ...
Upper Karoo rocks consist of medium- to coarse-grained feldspathic sandstones
with conglomerate beds and finer grained red sandstones with pebble bands.
The Kaluwe carbonatite was first identified and mapped in detail by Bailey (1960,
...
A. J. G. Notholt, R. P. Sheldon, D. F. Davidson, 2005
5
Chameleons of Southern Africa
This biome stretches across the geographic region known as the Upper Karoo, a
high plateau that occupies most of the interior of South Africa. Chameleons are
scarce in the Upper Karoo, with only two species known from this region. Reports
...
Krystal Tolley, Marius Burger, 2007
6
The Kalahari Environment
539) argue that there is no lithological justification to link the various units
collectively known as the Stormberg into a Group. The terminology proposed for
the upper Karoo strata in Botswana confuses the issue further in that Smith (1984
; see ...
David S. G. Thomas, Paul A. Shaw, 1991
7
Southern African Wild Flowers: Jewels of the Veld
The Upper Karoo encompasses a vast expanse of South Africa's dry country in
the heart of the central plateau, between 1 000 and 1 700 metres above sea level
. It is a land of immense skies and wide vistas, where the silhouettes of flat-
topped ...
8
Introduction to Travel and Tourism
De Aar is the capital of the Upper Karoo region of the Northern Cape. ♢
Coiesberg, another town in the Upper Karoo region, is an important stopover on
the Johannesburg-Cape Town route. The town is the centre for the country's
merino sheep ...
R. Heyns, M. Boekstein, J. Spencer, 2000
9
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
When it is desired to designate this northern part with a name of its own, it is
sometimes called Upper Karoo. The rainfall of the Little, Great and Upper Karoos
diminishes from east to west, and in the same direction the vegetation becomes ...
Eric Anderson Walker, 1963
10
Atlas of Deep-Water Outcrops: AAPG Studies in Geology 56
425–431. Turner, B. R., 1999, Tectonostratigraphical development of the Upper
Karoo foreland basin: Orogenic unloading versus thermally-induced Gondwana
rifting: Journal ofAfrican Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 215–238. Van Lente, B., 2004, ...
Tor H. Nilsen, Roger D. Shew, Gary Scott Steffens, 2008
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPPER KAROO»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Upper Karoo is used in the context of the following news items.
Black man, white man: you are both on your own
This scene is in sharp contrast to the beautiful valley of the Upper Karoo town of Orania, more than a thousand kilometres away. Here the townspeople, all white ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
The Historic Corbelled Houses of the Karoo in South Africa
You still see them out there in what is known as the Upper Karoo: raw stone or white-washed igloos built from perfectly balanced flat stones. Some have been ... «National Geographic, Jun 14»
What political parties are promising
Establishing Pixley ka Seme, ZF Mgcawu (Upper Karoo) and Namakwa as a joint quota-free zone as part of measures to defeat the current culture of corruption, ... «Independent Online, Mar 14»
Insight: Finding big oil fields in East Africa......
The well was drilled as a stratigraphic research well, not a wildcat exploration well, and penetrated some 500m of Upper Karoo (Permo-Triassic) sediments ... «Finding Petroleum, Apr 13»
Why destroy Karoo riches for short-term gains?
The book covers the five different parts of the Karoo – the central, northern and upper Karoo, the Great Karoo, the Hantam Karoo, the Tankwa Karoo and the ... «Independent Online, Mar 12»
Mozambi Coal in for busy first half of 2012 with a ramp up in coal …
All three drill holes intersected Upper Karoo sediments, which overlie the targeted Lower Karoo sediment package that hosts the main Productive Series of the ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Dec 11»
South African breeder says merinos dual-purpose
The Pienaar family's farm,Klipplaatsfontein, in the upper Karoo area, has been in the family for 122 years. It has 40deg summers, -5deg winters and a 360mm ... «Otago Daily Times, Mar 09»
