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VII.—The Old Granites of the Transvaal and of South and Central Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Mr. Geo. G. Holmes and others have observed the remarkable and highly suggestive fact that not only do the schists (which contain in many places interlaminated beds of quartzites and massive crystalline limestone, e.g. in the Dwarsberg on the Magalakwin River in the Northern Transvaal) appear interbedded in the gneisses, but that the strike foliation and planes of schistosity of these old schists and of the gneisses seem invariably to be parallel.

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page 543 note 5 Personally communicated. Also vide “Some Notes on the Geology of the Northern Transvaal,” by Holmes, Geo. G. (Trans. Geol. Soc. S. A., 1904, vol. vii, pt, i, p. 52)Google Scholar, and Rogers, A. W., loc. cit., p. 41.Google Scholar

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page 545 note 1 The origin of the Witwatesrand syncline can be explained in a similar manner.

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