TAPP
Karoo basalts - Zimbabwe
In March 2023, my colleague Professor Emese Bordy and I went to Zimbabwe to sample new drill core through the entire sequence of the Karoo Supergroup in the Nyamandlovu area. a region that has little rock exposures. These cores gave us a wonderful opportunity to samples rocks through the entire Karoo stratigraphy of the region for the first time. The project falls under a broader research theme on the petrogenesis of Large Igneous Provinces
An overlook of the open pit
We were lucky enough to see some of the diamonds
Zuko checking out the diamonds he found in the concentrate
An overlook of the open pit
UCT Geology
BSc Honours field school
The BSc Honours field school is an annual field trip around South Africa, run TAPP leader Geoff Howarth and several graduate students, making many stops at interesting geological sites around the country. Shown below are some of the highlights from the trip over the last several years.
During the 2019 BSc (Hon) field school, our graduate demonstrator Howard Head, made this video giving a glimpse into some of the highlights from the trip.
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Here we having a short rest ~2km underground at the top of a 160m rise along the Middlevlei gold reef.
Sinelethu posing for a photo with this fantastic outcrop of komatiite pillow lava's.