Blouberg Beach
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, Cape Town, South
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Pictures of sampling site and depositional facies
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Location:
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Africa
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South view | Macro |
Location | Blouberg Beach, 15 km north of Cape Town, South |
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Africa |
Depositional facies |
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Beach |
Provenance |
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Mixture of hinterland dunes and shallow water carbonate grains | |
Composition | Quartz, aragonite, siliceous sponge needles |
Texture | Medium grained, subangular, poorly sorted |
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Composition:
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Petrographic thin section:
Pictures of thin sections
Description | Mixture of siliceous (quartz, little feldspar) and calcitic debris (fragments of echinoids and bryozoa), little transparent sponge needles |
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Texture:
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Bright field | Dark field |
Sample number | heubeck0018? | ||
Collector | Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin | ||
Date of sampling |
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| 14. August 1992 |
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Comments:
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Further comments on the sand, depositional history, ecc.Shallow water; sponge patch reefs few 100 m in front of coast, mixed with mussel beds in the surf zone; Blouberg Bay is a popular beach ca. 15 km north of Cape Town.
