Sea Point
Metamorphic rocks
Primary structures, sedimentary, magmatic rocks
Intrusive contact of the Panafrican Peninsula pluton of the Cape Granite Suite into metasediments from the Malmesbury Supergroup. This locality was famously described by Charles Darwin during the Beagle Voyage
Master, S., 2009. Plutonism versus neptunism at the southern tip of Africa: the debate on the origin of granites at the Cape, 1776-1844. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb.-Earth Sci. 100, 1-13.
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Photograph: JF Moyen