. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 108 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM potentials and limitations may have affected their activities and, finally, how these activities may have affected the environment. In practice this approach has entailed the identification and quantification of a wide range of residues from the site and this has been possible only through close co-operation with biologists, geologists and palaeontologists. This is reflected in the text by reference to specialist studies and in the appended reports. GEOGRAPHICAL
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 108 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM potentials and limitations may have affected their activities and, finally, how these activities may have affected the environment. In practice this approach has entailed the identification and quantification of a wide range of residues from the site and this has been possible only through close co-operation with biologists, geologists and palaeontologists. This is reflected in the text by reference to specialist studies and in the appended reports. GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING PHYSIOGRAPHY The physiography of the south-western Cape coastal belt, including Walker Bay, is dominated by mountain ranges of Table Mountain Sandstone () which run more or less parallel to the coast. In the vicinity of Die Kelders the outliers of these mountains reach a height of some 350 m and are separated from the sea by a low-lying coastal plain which varies in width from about 3 km near Gansbaai to 10 km further north. The coastal plain in the Die Kelders area is mainly underlain by limestones covered in part by calcareous aeolianites and dune-sands. It is in the limestone that the main caves are cut (Figs 3-4). Many of these caves, including DK 1, have been eroded along the interface between the folded which has been locally planed at 7-8 m above sea-level, and the late Cenozoic Bredasdorp Formation, a marine limestone ^:^. Fig. 4. DK 1, left of staff, before Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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