GEOLOGY

Linyanti fault system
Southern African Rift opening
Precambrian rocks and sediments
Tectonic displacement
Geomorphology
Paleomagnetism

 

 

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Sallie L. Burrough, David S.G. Thomas, Richard M. Bailey, Lauren Davies

 

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An African surface weathering profile in the Kalahari of North West Ngamiland, Botswana: processes and products

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