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The degree to which the original Cape Fold mountains (formed during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods) have been eroded is attested to by the fact that the 1 km high Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula is a syncline mountain, meaning that it formed part of the bottom of a valley when the Cape Supergroup was initially folded.
The Cape Fold Mountains have been re-exposed by erosion of the coastal plain below the Great Escarpment (see "Geological origin", above), after having been covered by sediments originating from an even higher and more extensive range of mountains, comparable to the Himalayas, that developed during the assembly of Gondwana to the south of the ...
Picket Mountains: Western Cape: Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Rietfonteinrand: Reed Fountain Ridge: Gauteng: Riviersonderend Mountains: River without end Mountains: Western Cape: Part of the Cape Fold Belt system Roggeveld Mountains: Rye Field Mountains: Northern Cape: Rooiberg: Red Mountains: Rooiberg: Simonsberg: Simon's Mountains ...
Satellite image of Table Mountain, surrounded by Cape Town. Table Mountain is the northernmost end of a 50-kilometre-long (30 mi) and roughly six-to-ten-kilometre-wide (4 to 6 mi) Cape Fold Mountain range that forms the backbone of the Cape Peninsula, stretching from the Cape of Good Hope in the south to Table Mountain and its flanking Devil's ...
A map of South Africa shows the central plateau edged by the Great Escarpment and its relationship to the Cape Fold Mountains to the south. The portion of the Great Escarpment shown in red is known as the Drakensberg.
The degree to which the original Cape Fold mountains (formed during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods) have been eroded is attested to by the fact that the 1 km high Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula is a syncline mountain, meaning that it once formed part of the bottom of a valley when the Cape Supergroup was initially folded.
The Riviersonderend Mountains are a mountain range in the Cape Fold Belt of the Western Cape province of South Africa.They run east to west from Riviersonderend to Villiersdorp, separating the Breede River Valley from the Overberg region.
The Kogelberg is a range of mountains along the False Bay coast in the Western Cape of South Africa. They form part of the Cape Fold Belt, starting south of the Elgin valley and forming a steep coastal range as far as Kleinmond. The Kogelberg area has the steepest and highest drop directly into the ocean of any southern African coastal stretch.