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The Bushveld (from Afrikaans: bosveld, Afrikaans: bos 'bush' and Afrikaans: veld) is a sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa. The ecoregion straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and constitutes the southern part of the Zambezian region .
Bushveld Igneous Complex geologic map and mine locations. The Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) is the largest layered igneous intrusion [1] [2] within the Earth's crust. [3] It has been tilted and eroded forming the outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin: the Transvaal Basin.
Limpopo Sweet Bushveld (SVcb 19) Loskop Mountain Bushveld (SVcb 13) Loskop Thornveld (SVcb 14) Lowveld Rugged Mopaneveld (SVmp 6) Madikwe Dolomite Bushveld (SVcb 2) Mafikeng Bushveld (SVk 1) Makatini Clay Thicket (SVl 21) Makhado Sweet Bushveld (SVcb 20) Makuleke Sandy Bushveld (SVl 1) Malelane Mountain Bushveld (SVl 11) Mamabolo Mountain ...
The Bushveld is found in northeastern Namibia along the Angolan border and in the Caprivi Strip which is the vestige of a narrow corridor demarcated for the German Empire to access the Zambezi River. The area receives a significantly greater amount of precipitation than the rest of the country, averaging around 400 mm (15.7 in) per year.
Mines of the Merensky Reef. The Merensky Reef is a layer of igneous rock in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) in the North West, Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa which together with an underlying layer, the Upper Group 2 Reef (UG2), contains most of the world's known reserves of platinum group metals (PGMs) or platinum group elements (PGEs)—platinum, palladium ...
The Andesite Mountain Bushveld is a type of sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa. It is part of the Bushveld biome, which straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and constitutes the southern part of the Zambezian region .
Typical veld near Petrified forest in Namibia Springbok in growing veld; Etosha National Park, Namibia Springboks in the burned veld; Etosha National Park, Namibia. Veld (/ v ɛ l t / or / f ɛ l t /, Afrikaans and Dutch: veld, field), also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in Southern Africa.
Diospyros lycioides, commonly called the bushveld bluebush, is a species of African Diospyros, trees and shrubs in the family Ebenaceae. It is native to central and southern Africa, except the winter-rainfall area.