and engineering journal . omplex of the Bushveld. A- in tin- country lying to tie east, the contact betweenthe two basins ha- been the scene rth movements caused by intense pressure acting from the south, and doubt-less in great part due to the intrusion of the Bushveld ilite. The greater part of the area is occupied by the Trans-vaal System. This forms a broad bell with a general north-east-south wesl trend, which on the farm- Mooivallei and Donkerpoort Nu. 830 is split by faulting into twoportions, on,, trending north-north-east and the other roughlyea-i and west. The two be
and engineering journal . omplex of the Bushveld. A- in tin- country lying to tie east, the contact betweenthe two basins ha- been the scene rth movements caused by intense pressure acting from the south, and doubt-less in great part due to the intrusion of the Bushveld ilite. The greater part of the area is occupied by the Trans-vaal System. This forms a broad bell with a general north-east-south wesl trend, which on the farm- Mooivallei and Donkerpoort Nu. 830 is split by faulting into twoportions, on,, trending north-north-east and the other roughlyea-i and west. The two belts gradually diverge. Iseparated in the north eastern pari of the area bj in irregu-larly wedge-shaped tract of Waterberg sandstone representing a south-westerly projection from the main Waterbergarea to tin north-east. The Waterberg sandstone restsunconformablj < n the r< cks of the belt trending north-north-east, while its boundary with the easl and west belt i- f, rmedb\ a great thrust fault. Dipping beneath the Transvaal. Map of the Crocodile River Area. System on the m rth west is a belt i t ri cks partly < f v< Icanicand partly <l sedimnetarj origin belonging t< the Venters-di rp System. These rest unci nf< rmably on the Old the south-east the rocks of the Transvaal System aresucceeded by norite and diabase belonging t the IgnComplex \ n. lit. In the south-eastern corner of the area normal Box 3807. R0CKW00D PRESSED STEEL UNIONS H. ALERS HANKEY Sole Agent, THE MINING AND ENGINEEEING JOURNAL. Jburg, February 4, 1922. red Bushveld granite makes its appearance. South of thesouthern iron range, and north of it between the CrocodileRiver and the Bier Spruit, the underlying rocks are over widestretches hidden from view by a considerable thickness o
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