While these factors play a role, the fact that landslides occurred comes as no surprise, considering the geology of the area. South Africa: How Geology Put a South African City At Risk of ...

SOUTH AFRICA, paradise of geologists, continues touring forth its treasures. For many generations it has supplied the world with gold, diamonds, platinum and corundum, while in recent years the ...

Rock solid evidence: Angola geology reveals prehistoric split between South America and Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 05 ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

Using titanite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology I can constrain 2 billion years of South Africa’s thermal history and link that history to major episodes of basin burial (5 km) and erosion that ...

SOUTH Africa is characterised geologically by its unity in plan and its variety in structure and composition. It is of special interest to European geologists, as its Karroo formation is an ...

How geology put a South African city at risk of landslides The region is subtropical, but recent rains were unprecedented relative to recent records and resulted in multiple landslides.

Credit: Geological Society, London, Special Publications (2024). DOI: 10.1144/SP543-2022-301 ... Africa and South America started to split around 140 million years ago, ...