Cape-Karoo succession in the Western Cape (courtesy de Ville Wickens)

Monday

Western branch, Cape Town to Citrusdal, overnight at Mount Cedar Lodge in eastern Cedarberg.  Stops at Malmesbury, Piketberg, Citrusdal, Uitkyk Pass and Grootrivierhoogte in the Cedarberg Conservancy to view basement rocks, cover fold styles, faults and
CFB stratigraphy. Structural features of the syntaxis in the SW Cape Province. 

Tuesday

Syntaxis area, Ceres to Montagu.  Overnight in Montagu Country Hotel.  Stops at Skitterykloof Pass, N’wardouw, Theronsberg Pass, Ceres, Worcester, Robertson and Montagu to view flexural slip fold interference and syntaxial structure, Worcester fault, discuss seismicity.

Wednesday

Southern branch, Montagu to Oudtshoorn. Overnight at Buffelsdrift Game Lodge, Oudtshoorn.  Stops along R62 to view northward overturning, kink folds, cleavage, Miocene geomorphology, hot spring at Warmwaterberg, Ronnie’s Sex Shop, Jurassic rift fill,
Kango fault and much more.

Thursday

Southern branch, Oudtshoorn to Willowmore.  Overnight at Willowmore.  Stops to view Holocene fault reactivation along the Kango segment of the Kango fault system, Cretaceous rocks of the Oudtshoorn Basin, inlier of basement rocks (Kango Group) then Cape and Karoo Supergroups at Meiringspoort, north-vergent folding and low angle faulting, folded strata of lower Cape Supergroup rocks and thrusting at Uniondale.

Friday

Willowmore via Steytlerville to overnight in Port Elizabeth.  Folded and thrust-faulted rocks of upper Cape Supergroup exposed at Draaikrans where we examine the close relationship between folding and faulting.  Bokkeveld Group rocks crop out sporadically en route to Uitenhage where bedding/cleavage relationships in these rocks will be shown. We cross the Algoa Basin (Cretaceous) at Uitenhage as we travel to Port Elizabeth.

Saturday

Drive back from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town.  View Outeniqua anticlinorium, Miocene platform, Knysna estuaries, Enon Formation, deep gorges and general Garden Route scenery.

Field Trip Leaders: Coenie de Beer, Council for Geoscience and Gideon Brunsdon.

• Dates: 22 - 27 August 2016
• Start – End: Cape Town
• Number of participants: 20-35, including 1 guides/1 drivers