Ancient mountain rootsThese wonderful striped and tilted metamorphosed sediments in the Damara mount
Ancient mountain rootsThese wonderful striped and tilted metamorphosed sediments in the Damara mountains of Namibia record an event that lasted 200 million years: the creation of the supercontinent Gondwana out of its component parts during the Pan African orogeny between 400 and 600 million years ago, as complex life was spreading through the seas of the globe. We did a post covering this stupendous mountain building event available at http://tinyurl.com/k6464q6.LozImage credit: Bernhard Edmaier -- source link
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