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Geological map of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay Geological section of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town lies at the south-western corner of the continent of Africa. It is bounded to the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the north and east by various other municipalities in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The folding of the Cape Supergroup into the parallel mountain ranges of the Western Cape began approximately 330 million years ago, shaping the landscape from Clanwilliam (about 200 km north of Cape Town) to Port Elizabeth (about 650 km east of Cape Town). Beyond these points, the Cape Supergroup sediments are not folded into mountain ranges ...
Map showing the Cape Peninsula, illustrating the positions of the Cape Town City Centre, Table Mountain, the main mountains and peaks that make up the Peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope. The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast.
Geology of Table Mountain in relation to the geology of the rest of the Cape Peninsula. The upper approximately 600-metre (2,000 ft) portion of the one-kilometre-high (0.62 mi) table-topped mountain, or mesa, consists of 450- to 510-million-year-old rocks belonging to the two lowermost layers of the Cape Fold Mountains.
Geology of South Africa; Cape Peninsula – Rocky peninsula in the Western Cape, South Africa; Table Mountain – Flat-topped mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town, South Africa; Table Mountain Sandstone – Group of rock formations within the Cape Supergroup sequence of rocks; Karoo Supergroup – Mesozoic stratigraphic unit in Africa
The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold, diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits. The geomorphology of South Africa consists of a high plateau rimmed to west, south and southeast by the Great Escarpment , and the rugged mountains of the Cape Fold Belt .
The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. The Cape Flats is also the name of an administrative region of the City of Cape Town , which lies within the larger geographical area.
The mountain range forms a barrier between the Cape Town metropolitan area and the southern Overberg coast. The range is primarily composed of Table Mountain Sandstone, and lies between the eastern Cape Town suburbs of Somerset West and Gordon's Bay to the west, and the Elgin valley to the east.