Geodynamics of the Cape Fold Belt book edited by A.P.G. Söhnge and I.W Hälbich

Geodynamics of the Cape Fold Belt book edited by A.P.G. Söhnge and I.W Hälbich.

A contribution to the National Geodynamics Programme. Sponsored by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

The Cape Fold Belt (CFB) is a 1300 km long fold-and-thrust mountain belt along the western and southern coastlines of South Africa. A limited understanding of the sedimentary provenance history and poor constraints on the timing of deformation has restricted the ability to provide a coherent tectonic model for the evolution of the CFB. Provenance studies on the Cape Supergroup, which dominates CFB outcrop, are largely limited to U-Pb dating of detrital zircons, which indicate the Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Complex and Pan-African orogenic belts as likely sources for much of the detritus. Early geochronological studies constraining the timing of deformation in the CFB utilized 40Ar/39Ar step-heating analysis of bulk mineral separates. In these studies, dominant age domains were interpreted as multiple episodes of deformation.

This volume is the Special Publication No. 12 of The Geological Society of South Africa. A Hard cover in original dark green rexine and with gilt titling to front board and on spine, with a pictorial dust cover. Consists of 184 pages with photographs, graphs, diagrams, maps and tables. Volume includes various coloured fold out maps.

Published: 1983 Publisher: The Geological Society of South Africa

Edition: First 1983.  ISBN: 0 620 06649 0.

Condition: Book is in a very good condition. Cover boards are as new, binding is tight and strong. Inside pages are clean with no marks or inscriptions. Dust jacket has slight shelf scuffing and some tears. Pull out pages have been put together for the maps.

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