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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 University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
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 ...
Hendrik Hofmeyr, composer and music theorist; winner of the 1997 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Composition Prize; Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town; Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair; Melanie Scholtz, vocalist, operas, jazz, pop, r&b, and classical music; graduated from the School of Opera
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.
Michael Edward Meadows was born on 25 July 1955 in Liverpool, UK. He attended the University of Sussex between 1973 and 1976. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Biological Science, before obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge in 1979.
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 ( Ordovician ) rocks belonging to the two lowermost layers of the Cape Fold Mountains .
John Compton from the Geology Department of the University of Cape Town has a special interest in the Geology of the Cape Peninsula and has written several books and pamphlets on the subject. You could approach him for a more meaningful map than the present one.