An Overview of the Soutpansberg Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks

Abstract

Volcanic and sedimentary rocks occupy a faulted graben within the previously uplifted and eroded high-grade gneiss terrain of the Limpopo Mobile Belt. The rocks comprise the Soutpansberg Group and represent an important sequence of Proterozoic rocks. Their general geology and volcanology is summarised in this paper.

Keywords

• Proterozoic, igneous, metamorphic, basalt, sedimentary, pyroclastic, ash-flow, rift.