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Übersetzung für 'Dwyka' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Dwyka Formation

Dwyka-Formation {f}geol.

Dwyka Group

Dwyka-Gruppe {f}geol.

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Dwyka Ice Age

Dwyka-Eiszeit {f}geol.

• Dwyka-Eiszeit {f} = Dwyka Ice Age
• Dwyka-Formation {f} = Dwyka Formation
• Dwyka-Gruppe {f} = Dwyka Group

• The Witteberg Group is truncated by the overlying Dwyka sediments of glacial origin.
• It mainly follows conformably after the Dwyka Group in some sections, but in some localities overlying unconformably over much older basement rocks.
• The Witteberg Group is truncated by the overlying Dwyka sediments of glacial origin.
• Rudyard Kipling, in his 1901 poem "Bridge-Guard in the Karroo", evoked the loneliness experienced by blockhouse soldiers at Ketting station on the Dwyka River while guarding the Karoo railway track, a lifeline during the South African War.
• The Ganigobis Formation is a Late Carboniferous (Gzhelian) to Early Permian (Artinskian) geologic formation of the Dwyka Group in the ǁKaras Region of southeastern Namibia and the Northern Cape of South Africa.

• The Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Ganigobis Formation has provided fossil fishes and the younger White Hill, Huab and Gai-As Formations of the Dwyka Group contain "Mesosaurus" fossils.
• In the 1870s, the Cape Colony government expanded its railway network inland, towards the diamond fields of Kimberley. A station, also named Dwyka, was built where the line crossed the Dwyka river.
• It lies north of Moordenaar's Karoo and forms part of an escarpment between the Roggeveld Mountains and the Nuweveld Mountains; at 45 km long, the Komsberg stretches from Verlatenkloof Pass to near the Dwyka River gorge.
• "Dwykaselachus" (pronounced dwike-a-selak-us) is an extinct genus of symmoriiform, a cartilaginous fish that lived in what is now South Africa during the Permian period around 280 million years ago.