Projects

Our team at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has been actively engaged in the development of virtual geological tours (VTs) featuring key outcrops of the Cape Granite Suite, Cape Supergroup, and Karoo Supergroup. The primary objectives of this initiative are threefold: to create comprehensi

See the following link for VFT Project updates VFT Project Update - Google Docs

Update from Cam (Cameron.Penn-Clarke@wits.ac.za) To date we have logged 514 individual SACS stratotypes from the SACS Lithostatigraphic Series (complete) and SACS Handbook 8 (Nambian and Phanerozoic erathems), complete with GPS co-ordinates and associated locality information.  Our plan is to link

Update from Cam: 1. The appointment of 4 students is in progress. the students start work in February 2024.  They will be assisting in the creation of databases that will be linked to the app, specifically on the interactive geology layer.  We hope to complete the million map layer by May with the

The Umvoto Foundation (TUF) is currently developing a series of self-guided geotrails, with a particular focus on water resources and hydrogeoheritage: - Table Mountain dams geotrail, which was completed in 2021 and available to download for free (https://theumvotofoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/