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II.—Notes on the Geology of Basutoland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. S. Dornan
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The rocks composing Basutoland belong to the Stormberg Series of the Karroo System. They cover a much larger area than Basutoland, extending into the Orange River Colony on the west and north, on the south and east into Cape Colony and Natal, and, I am informed, across the Vaal into the Transvaal. The area is thus not less than 45,000 square miles. The whole of that part of the Orange River Colony known as “the Conquered Territory,” east of a line drawn from Thaba 'Nchu to Vrede, is occupied by the whole or portions of these rocks.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 1908 , pp. 57 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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page 57 note 1 Ball visited the locality in 1898 before the tunnel described above had been cleaned out, and is responsible for the rather fantastic theory that it led to another inhabited oasis to the north of the escarpment (op. cit., pp. 31 and 76). The same writer further remarks (p. 82): “It is worthy of note that, with the exception of the Roman work near Ain Um Dabadib and a line of bricked manholes near Gennah, no traces of underground watercourses, such as occur so abundautly in Baharia Oasis, are to be seen in Kharga.” As a matter of fact, however, there is hardly a district in northern Kharga where extensive underground aqueducts do not occur, and they far exceed in magnitude anything found in the oasis of Baharia.

page 59 note 1 Since this was written footprints of reptiles have been discovered in Moltenog Beds near the Tsuaieng River about 1½ hour's ride from Morija. They are fourtoed and about 6 inches square, and belonged to some heavy-footed animal similar to a Pareiasaurus, but certainly not this animal. They strongly resemble Labyrinthodont tracks. Iam also informed by Mr. H. C. sloley, Resident Commisioner of the Maseru, that a skeleton of a Dinosaur of large size was found in the bed of the Tebetebend River, and curiously enough was lying alongside of a doleritic dyke.

page 60 note 1 The Rev. II. Dieterlen, of Leribe, has a vertebra of a Dinosaur, 6 inches in length, which is said to have come from Red Beds, and also near his station there is a portion of an arm-bone, embedded in grey mudstone, just at the base of the Red Beds.

page 61 note 1 Voyage d'exploratioa, par Arbousset, M., 1836.Google Scholar

page 62 note 1 Part of a jaw was found near Morija; it probably belongs to Hortalotarsus.

page 62 note 2 Since writing this, further study of these footprints has convinced me that what I took to be footprints partially obliterated by others made long subsequently were only the partial obliteration made by the hind-feet of animals following the others immediately.