The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ( knife-edges) partly destroyed byAveatbering, and a lower pinnacle (in the middle of the picture) cut off by anancient channel of the river. Plate XVII. Geological sketch-map of the country around the Batoka Gorge of theZambezi, on the scale of 10 miles to the inch; and three diagrammatic sections:(1) across the Zambezi basin ; (2) across the lower portion of theWankie Seriesat Wankie; and (3) in theWankie Series adjacent to the Deka Fault. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LXIII, PI. X. *? a MM ? !? n -M -1 Photo by the late Col. F. W.
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ( knife-edges) partly destroyed byAveatbering, and a lower pinnacle (in the middle of the picture) cut off by anancient channel of the river. Plate XVII. Geological sketch-map of the country around the Batoka Gorge of theZambezi, on the scale of 10 miles to the inch; and three diagrammatic sections:(1) across the Zambezi basin ; (2) across the lower portion of theWankie Seriesat Wankie; and (3) in theWankie Series adjacent to the Deka Fault. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LXIII, PI. X. *? a MM ? !? n -M -1 Photo by the late Col. F. W. Rhodes. Rift, about 80 feet deep, in Cataract Island, Victoria Falls, excavated along a verticaljoint or small fault in the Batoka Basalts by an overflow streamlet. The LeapingWater, in the distance. The joint-plane showed traces of slickensides. Quart. Journ Geol. Soc. Vol. LXIII, PI. Photo, by Sykes. The Batoka Gorge, looking up from the confluence of the Songwi River, about6 miles below the Victoria Falls. A sand-bult forms the sky-line on the left. Note the sharp trenching of the plateau; and compare the angle of slope of thewalls, here nearly 500 feet high, with that shown in the next three Plates. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LXIII, PI. XII.
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