Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 95-107.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Environmental and Geographical Science
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613239277256705 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Gaines, Sarah Margaret |
| author2 | Holmes, Peter |
| author_browse | Gaines, Sarah Margaret Holmes, Peter |
| author_facet | Holmes, Peter Gaines, Sarah Margaret |
| author_sort | Gaines, Sarah Margaret |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | Bibliography: leaves 95-107. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4853 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:32:58.612Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2014 |
| publishDateRange | 2014 |
| publishDateSort | 2014 |
| publisher | Department of Environmental and Geographical Science |
| publisherStr | Department of Environmental and Geographical Science |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4853 The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa Gaines, Sarah Margaret Holmes, Peter Meadows, Michael E Environmental and Geographical Science Bibliography: leaves 95-107. Two clusters of pans and associated lunette dunes are distinct landscape featurs in the Swartland and Agulhas Plain regions of the southwestern Cape of South Africa. While occurring in geographic proximity within the Winter Rainfall Region, each of the pan-lunette clusters is hosted by different substrates, subjected to different coastal climate regimes and exhibits different morphology, orientation of features, and sedimentological characteristics. Not only are geomorphic characteristics at variance between regions, but also the alignment of lunettes on the leeside of pans, parallel within the cluster, is at variance with predominant modern wind direction and seasonality of precipitation at both sites, although the difference is more pronounced at Agulhas. In order to elucidate the occurrence and formational processes of these features, a dual-scale approach was employed: a regional cartographic study coupled with detailed local sedimentological analyses. The geomorphic characteristics of these features were quantified using aerial photography and orthophotographic maps. Dry season palaeo-wind direction was inferred from the regional analysis; in Agulhas, winds must have been blowing from WSW during the dry season, similar to modern wet season winds. 2014-07-31T08:04:42Z 2014-07-31T08:04:42Z 2003 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4853 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environmental and Geographical Science Gaines, Sarah Margaret The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| title_full | The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| title_short | The morphology, sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan-lunette clusters in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa |
| title_sort | morphology sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental significance of two pan lunette clusters in the southwestern cape of south africa |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4853 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT gainessarahmargaret themorphologysedimentologyandpalaeoenvironmentalsignificanceoftwopanlunetteclustersinthesouthwesterncapeofsouthafrica AT gainessarahmargaret morphologysedimentologyandpalaeoenvironmentalsignificanceoftwopanlunetteclustersinthesouthwesterncapeofsouthafrica |