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The Council for Geoscience was established in terms of the Geoscience Act, No. 100 of 1993, as the successor to the Geological Survey of South Africa, which was formed in 1912 by combining three existing organisations. The oldest of these was the Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope, which was founded in 1895.
The Drakensberg Group is a geological group named after the Drakensberg mountain range where in its uppermost sections the rocks are found. The Drakensberg Group lies over most of Lesotho and localities in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Free State provinces of South Africa.
This is a list of geoscience organizations, including such fields of geosciences as geology, geophysics, hydrology, oceanography, petrophysics, and related fields. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Intercontinental organizations
Council for Geoscience; Council for Medical Schemes; Council on Higher Education; Denel (Pty) Ltd; Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Eskom; Estate Agency Affairs Board (The) Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (Ltd.) Film and Publication Board (FPB) Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) Free State Development ...
Council for Geoscience; E. Ellisras Basin; G. Geological Commission of the Cape of Good Hope; Geological Society of South Africa; Geology of Cape Town; Giyani ...
Table Mountain. The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts.The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold, diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits.
Port St. Johns (or Port Saint Johns) is a town of about 6,500 people on the Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated at the mouth of the Umzimvubu River, 220 kilometres (140 mi) northeast of East London and 70 kilometres (40 mi) east of Mthatha.
The geological successions of the Algoa Group outcrop from Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape to East London in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. There are also putative outcrops of Algoa Group rocks further NE in the Port St Johns area.