पूर्वोत्तर दक्षिण अफ्रीका में दक्षिणी ट्रांसवाल में एक चट्टानी क्षेत्र; समृद्ध सोने की जमा और कोयला और मैंगनीज शामिल है

witwatersrand's Usage Examples:

One is a red granite intruded subsequently to the Waterberg sandstones; another is a grey variety considered to be older than the Black Reef series and possibly older than the Witwatersrand series.

In the Marico district the shales become highly ferruginous and resemble the Hospital Hill slates of the Witwatersrand series.

in the Witwatersrand area to 5000 ft.

This system rests unconformably on the Witwatersrand series and is unconformably overlain by the Transvaal system.

No fossils have been discovered, and except that they represent some portion or portions of rocks of the Pre-Cape formation the age of the upper Witwatersrand beds, as well as that of the lower division, remains an open question.

Their chief occurrences are in the districts of Witwatersrand, Heidelberg, Klerksdorp and Venterskroon.

Ac cording to Molengraaff it includes the two following series: - An upper group including the auriferous conglomerates of the Rand: Witwatersrand Series.

This edge is marked by ranges of hills such as the Witwatersrand, Witwatersberg and Magaliesberg; the Witwatersrand, which extends eastward to Johannesburg, forming the watershed between the rivers flowing to the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

A group of highly inclined quartzites, altered conglomerates and jasperoid rocks which crop out on the Umhlatuzi river, between Melmoth and Nkandhla and on the White Umfolosi river above Ulundi Ph ins, is considered by Anderson to represent some portion of the Lover Witwatersrand series.

It is built on the Witwatersrand at an elevation of 57 0 9 ft.

witwatersrand's Meaning':

a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese