| BUFFELSWEST RIVER: Topography, geology and soils |
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| TOPOGRAPHY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Buffels River mouth is located on the
western side of False Bay near the tip of the Cape Peninsula.
The entire catchment falls within the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. (Ref 1) |
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| GEOLOGY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Buffels, which is hardly more than a
seasonal stream, has a spring as its source in a small poorly defined
catchment. The catchment is composed almost entirely of rocks of
the Table Mountain Series and of the weathered prodcuts of the parent
rock.
Most of the stream beds in the Cape Peninsula follow lines of weakness along joints or faults. (Ref 1) |
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Near its mouth the stream flows into an area of vegetation stabilized windblown sand which has partiall y filled the lower valley. The drift sand has its origins in a small bay situated between two rocky promontories. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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A band of older sands stretch across the peninsula from Buffels Bay to the western coastline at Brightwater. (Ref 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ref 1: Estuaries of the Cape Report No.12 BUFFELS(WES)CSW 1 and BUFFELS (OOS)CSW 11 - CSIR RESEARCH REPORT 411 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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