Geology for Global Development

Friday Photo (72): Geologists in the Field – South African Canyon

Rosalie Tostevin March 29, 2013 Geologists in the field, Photos 2 Comments

Two undergraduates walk through a canyon in the Karoo, South Africa. The bedrock is a glacial diamictite formed during the Gondwana glaciation.

By Rosalie Tostevin

Rosalie was the Himalayas Programme Officer for Geology for Global Development and writer for the GfGD blog. She is a geochemist and a postdoc at the University of Oxford.

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HGroenewald March 30, 2013, 8:39 am

Can you please let us know where this photo was taken?
Rosalie Tostevin March 30, 2013, 9:05 pm

This is the Dwyka formation, just south of the town of Laingsburg, off the N1 in South Africa.

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