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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link is a state-of-the-art rail route and one of the ten Spatial Development Initiatives planned in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The route comprises two links, namely a link between Tshwane ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-05-27)The aquifer vulnerability of the Molototsi (B81G) and Middle Letaba (B82D) quaternary catchments was assessed to determine the influence of the vadose zone on the groundwater regime. Anecdotal evidence indicated that the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The Kinsevere mine is a copper deposit located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), within the Central African Copperbelt. This area is situated in the Katangan basin within the SE portion of the Lufilian Arc, which ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-05-24)Euhedral clinopyroxene mega-crystals have been retrieved from Marion Island, a volcanic island situated on an inactive transform fault near the mid oceanic ridge on Antarctic tectonic plate and part of the Prince Edward ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-05-24)Contaminant release and transport in platinum tailings are poorly studied in literature. This study serves to characterise these processes. The tailings facility is located in Steelpoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa on Critical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-05-24)The greater part of land in the area south of Pretoria is underlain by dolomite from the Chuniespoort Group of the Transvaal Supergroup. In South Africa dolomite rock has a notorious reputation for the formation of sinkholes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The Zagros fold-thrust belt results from the continent-continent collision between the Arabian margin and the Eurasian plate following the closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean during the Tertiary. Despite some ongoing controversies ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-07)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-05-05)The Platreef is a platinum group element (PGE) and base metal enriched mafic/ultramafic layer situated along the base of the northern (Potgietersrus) limb of the Bushveld Complex. It represents an important resource of PGE ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-05-05)A palaeomagnetic study of the Waterberg Group (Jones and McElhinny, 1967) did not find a consistent direction. However, a pattern was identified and interpreted in terms of apparent polar wander during the deposition and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-29)Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document Please note: There is still one map which will be added to this document as soon as it is available
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-04-07)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)A new geophysical method was developed to satisfy a need for in-situ density measurements. Various situations, such as a gravity dam wall requires that density measurements should be done without damage to the structure. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-23)A viability study was undertaken on a farm Zandrivierspoort 210 JP, in the Pilanesberg Alkaline Complex to investigate the red syenite deposit. The red syenite deposit of interest is located in the south-western quadrant ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-05)Sequence stratigraphy highlights stratal stacking patterns and changes thereof within a time frame. Each stratal stacking pattern defines a particular genetic type of deposit with a unique geometry and sediment dispersal ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-09)The time of deposition of the Pretoria Group between 2.32 and 2.06 Ga on South Africa’s Kaapvaal Craton was characterized by the first major increase in atmospheric oxygen. It was accompanied by the extrusion of significant ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-09)The volcanic rocks of the Rooiberg Group represent the uppermost unit in the Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup and form one of the largest provinces of silicic volcanic rocks in the world. Although stratigraphicall ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-08)An integrated study of the sedimentology, micropalaeontology, mineralogy and geochemistry of glauconites in the Oligocene Maniyara Fort Formation (western Kutch, India), has been undertaken. Authigenic glauconites, mostly ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-07)The Magaliesberg Formation sandstones within the upper part of the Pretoria Group are interpreted as a second-order highstand systems tract within an overall clastic epeiric marine setting, where episodic braided fluvial ...
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(Elsevier, 2011)The application of the onset of supercontinentality, the “Great Oxidation Event” (GOE) and the first global scale glaciation in the Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic as panacea-like events providing a framework or even ...
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