116 THE TABLE MOUNTAIN SANDSTONE 



of the series can be seen. The Peninsula mountains, 

 however, are merely outliers of the main portion of the 

 Table Mountain beds in the Colony. 



A description of the distribution of the series will 

 serve also as a description of the main structural features 

 of the southern part of the Colony. The broad outline 

 of the structure has been given in the Introduction, 

 but as nearly every important anticline in the south is 

 marked on the surface by a ridge of Table Mountain 

 sandstone, a more detailed account will not be out of 

 place here. The position of the main anticlines men- 

 tioned below will be found in the map at the commence- 

 ment of the volume. 1 



On the seaward side of the folded belt of sedimentary 

 rocks forming the southern part of the Colony the Table 

 Mountain sandstone becomes less steeply folded over 

 large areas than anywhere within the belt itself. On 

 the west, in the coastal plains of Clanwilliam and 

 Piquetberg, the sandstone lies at low angles; by its 

 removal the underlying Malmesbury beds and granite 

 have been laid bare in the divisions of Van Ehyn's Dorp, 

 Piquetberg, Malmesbury, Cape, Paarl and Stellenbosch, 

 and the outliers of the Peninsula mountains, Riebeek's 

 Kasteel and Simon's Berg, bear testimony to its former 

 extension over that part of the south-west as a gently 

 undulating layer. 



A long outlier, bounded by a fault on the north-east 



1 Sheets 1, 2 and 4 of the Geol. Map of Cape Colony illustrate the 

 south-western corner of the country. The rest of the folded belt has not 

 yet been published in that series, but portions will be found in G. C., 

 viii., ix. and x. 



