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BUFFELS:
MAIN INDEX |
ALPHABETICAL
LIST OF RIVERS |
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Map
of the BUFFELS River |
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TOPOGRAPHY
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Kleinzee
has rocky hills.
The
Buffels
River
has large, vegetation- covered white sand hummocks (Burrage,
1978). (Ref 1)
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GEOLOGY
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Most of the area around
the mouth consists of scrub-covered dunes, which show evidence of cross
bedding in places. Inland,
outcrops of calcrete eroded by marine terraces can be found and there is
also evidence of strong metamorphic action. (Ref 1)
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The rocks in the area of
the
Buffels
River
are known as the Buffels, Marine Complex, which is a name given to the
geological formations in the area by the geologists at Kleinsee.
At the mouth these rocks belong predominantly to the
Namaqualand-Natal granite gneiss series, which are seen as seaward
dipping layered formations of quartz, micacious gneiss and schists (De
Beers, 1979). (Ref 1)
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SOILS
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The
Buffels
River
exhibits fine to medium, quartzitic
sand (125 to 500 μm) with fine silt (7.8 to 15.6 μm) in places
along its river course, but the typical fluvial sediment is coarse sand,
500 to 1000 μm (CSIR, 1981c; Cornelissen,
1968).
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References |
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Ref
1: CSIR (1981),
Estuaries of the
Cape
, Part II. Synopses of available information on individual systems. Report
no. 2. Buffels (CW3). CSIR Research Report 401.
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