THE GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION OF A FOSSILIFEROUS DEPOSIT NEAR ZWARTKLIP IN FALSE BAY

1 January 1962

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Vol. 36 (4) , 205-211
https://doi.org/10.1080/00359196209519049

Abstract

Fragmented fossilized bones, embedded in a large boulder broken away from a cliff near Zwartklip along the False Bay shore, are described. It is estimated that the fossils belong to the terminal period of the Upper Pleistocene. The cliffs are composed of sediments of both marine and aeolian origin. They are surfaced by a hard secondary calcareous tufa. The origin of the deposits is thought to post-date the last Interglacial.

Keywords

FOSSILIFEROUS DEPOSIT
FALSE BAY
ZWARTKLIP
GEOLOGY AND DESCRIPTION

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Pleistocene Temperatures
The Journal of Geology, 1955