Story of Table Mountain

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  • Опубліковано 28 чер 2017
  • Geologist tells the geological story of Cape Town's Table Mountain

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  • @timroberts1109
    @timroberts1109 Рік тому +1

    Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! I’ve had the great experience of visiting Table Mountain…for a day back in 2014.

  • @zamaningonyama9246
    @zamaningonyama9246 5 років тому +6

    My left ear is lonely....

  • @capefox8321
    @capefox8321 4 роки тому +8

    The background music makes it difficult to concentrate on what is being said...

  • @Vestnesis93
    @Vestnesis93 2 роки тому +1

    Great info, thanks!

  • @janrabie1890
    @janrabie1890 3 роки тому +1

    Very interesting!

  • @krazyjey
    @krazyjey Рік тому

    Hoerikwaggo , the mountain of the sea.
    the mountain looks equally flat from blawbergstrand, from kommetjie and, flat again from stellenbosch m12 looking into constantia neck,
    It s always amaze me that on cable car road passing all those parking to plattaklip, I can touch brown and red Graafwater Layer it s crumble to dust, i can brake easily the shale plates imbeded into the starta . that is almost 300 millions years old and plus.
    The base is soft and the rock cycle is at it s softest and fine dust squeezed between harder malmesbury shale.
    Now my question, can we spot the K/T boundary or memory on the 65 millions years old event ?

  • @notw22
    @notw22 2 роки тому +1

    Great explanation thank you living and being from Cape town I always wondered how it was formed

  • @dunzxoxo
    @dunzxoxo 2 роки тому

    And ontop of Table Mountain, one one of the many plaques there it says that the mountain broke away from the Hottentots mountain range millions of years ago and floated till it came to stop where it is now. So where is the truth?

    • @krazyjey
      @krazyjey Рік тому +2

      hi dunia, you are totally right, i am a geologist and came to the same conclusion. I live in hout bay and stellenbosch and i watch those mountains and peaks everyday. The break out did happen when big meteorites landed in namibia and created kaos and land modification. the penninsula and the hottentots were at this time under ice , like 2 kms high. hence the break was clean sharp and immediate. The glacier melted but some remains of his past can be seen with a trained eye. (

    • @dunzxoxo
      @dunzxoxo Рік тому

      @@krazyjey hi, yes itz very interesting to read all that. Hated that at school, but found it all so interesting when I went travelling, then it all came alive,what the teaches were saying. Just love looking up on the mountains, the other side looking up to Kirstenbosch Gardens in Claremont 😉😊love learning more, so I use Mr. Google from time to time. 😉

  • @markross7385
    @markross7385 4 роки тому +5

    I knew this was horse shyt. The "millions and millions of years" part at the end just verified it.

  • @yashuasaves5207
    @yashuasaves5207 2 роки тому

    And I guess devils. Tower is not an old tree