Along the western shores of southern Africa, most spectacular landscapes have developed in a hyper-arid zone, which nevertheless boasts a variety of adapted forms of life. Between the Carunjamba River in southern Angola in the north and the Olifants River of South Africa in the south, nature has created the forbidding, yet fascinating  Namib Desert, cursed by shipwrecked people and early explorers for centuries and admired by  more modern travelers for its magnificent landscapes, forever changing pastel colours and wide open spaces. The excursion will examine the sedimentology of the central Namib Sand Sea, Namibia’s latest addition to the World Heritage List. Places include the Sesriem Canyon, Sossus Vlei with its high dunes, the Conas Cliffs exposing a petrified desert that underlies the modern Namib Desert, the Gobabeb Desert Research Station, and Sandwhich Harbour, where coastal sediment dynamics will be explained.

Field Trip Leaders: Mary Seely, John Ward, Roger Swart                           
Start/end: Windhoek
Date: 6 days, last week August 2016                                                             
Price: TBA
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